Category: World

Start your Tuesday with the SOFREP Morning Brief: Key intel on defense and global affairs for April 22, 2025.

Stay on top of the news with the SOFREP Evening Brief: Top updates on defense and global affairs for April 21, 2025.

The Pope’s death isn’t just the end of a papacy—it’s the final curtain for a Church so out of touch it’s practically communicating in Morse code from a bygone century.

Start your Monday with the SOFREP Morning Brief: Key intel on defense and global affairs for April 21, 2025.

Here is the SOFREP Evening Brief for the night of Sunday, April 20th, 2025. President Trump has yet to invoke the Insurrection Act but continues laying the groundwork amid escalating tensions over immigration enforcement, while Florida State University faces backlash for resuming classes just days after a deadly mass shooting, and Pope Francis, still ailing, delivered a powerful Easter message urging peace in Gaza and beyond, condemning antisemitism, and calling on world leaders to invest in compassion over conflict.

Elon Musk didn’t just disrupt the aerospace status quo—he torched the old playbook, launched it into orbit, and rewrote the future with Starlink and a reusable rocket.

Happy Easter! Welcome to Sunday, April 20th, 2025. Here’s what’s making news today: Russia shatters its Easter ceasefire with continued strikes in Ukraine, the Pentagon halves its troop presence in Syria, the Naval Academy cancels Ryan Holiday’s speech, and VP JD Vance heads to India for pivotal trade talks.

Good Evening! Here is your SOFREP Evening Brief for Saturday, April 19, 2025. The Trump administration has transformed federal COVID-19 websites into platforms pushing the lab leak theory while erasing vital health guidance, as Putin declares a short Easter ceasefire in Ukraine amid ongoing attacks and skepticism from Zelensky, Israel escalates airstrikes across Gaza killing scores of civilians in humanitarian zones, and Hamas offers to release all hostages if Israel ends the war and meets sweeping demands—marking a week of high-stakes global conflict and domestic political rebranding.

Good Morning! It’s Saturday April 19, 2025. Here’s a little of what’s going on in the world today. As U.S.-Iran nuclear talks resume in Rome under tense geopolitical strain, the Trump administration’s balancing act between sanctions relief and non-proliferation is colliding with growing skepticism at home and abroad.

Stay on top of the news with the SOFREP Evening Brief: Top updates on defense and global affairs for April 18, 2025.

Oskar Zepeda is a Former Army Ranger sniper with nine combat deployments under his belt, and a man who any bad guy would hate to see coming their way.

A routine island hopper turned into a blood-soaked nightmare in the Belizean skies, thanks to a knife-wielding lunatic who slipped through the cracks of a security system running on autopilot. Thankfully, someone had a firearm to bring the madness to an end.