My Voyage to Syria with the PKK (pt. 1)

From the moment I was met at my hotel on Sulaymaniyah, I was fed into an underground ratline, a clandestine logistics network for moving people, guns, and even ideas. The driver was a good man with good references. He was to drive me north, from Suly up into the mountains of northern Kurdistan. It was […]

Brandon Webb on the Today Show

Team Room, here’s a video of Brandon Webb’s appearance on the today show. You’ll be seeing a lot of Brandon in the media this week as the book tour for his ‘Among Heroes’ kicks off.

I woke up in the middle of a dogfight

It was scary. My noise canceling headset had fallen off and had taken my hat and ballistic sunglasses with it. There was a pile between my legs. That was the first thing I remember my eyes being able to focus on after my blurry vision cleared. I didn’t know where I was and was feeling […]

We Need Your Help for Jaeger: At War with Denmark’s Elite Special Forces

Hey Team Room members, apologies for taking so long to get Jaeger: At War with Denmark’s Elite Special Forces up on here for you guys.  We promise that all SOFREP ebooks will be made available to our Team Room members, no double charging you guys for additional material we put out.  So on that note, […]

Religion. Politics. Jihad. (Pt. 3)

Religion is the mobilizer of militants and serves as justification for brutality. Still, we must consider solutions beyond bombs and bullets.

Religion. Politics. Jihad. (Pt. 2)

Religious terror organizations have at their core religious ideology. IS and AQ are not alone in their use of religion to mobilize militancy.

Religion. Politics. Jihad. (Pt. 1)

The assertion that religion is part of the global jihad movement is by no means profound, but the fusion is more complex than most like to acknowledge.