World

From Darfur to Khartoum, Sudan’s war reads like the worst kind of rerun: militias rebranded, generals trading uniforms for power, and civilians paying in blood while the world shrugs.

Terrorism isn’t an enemy to be defeated, it’s a symptom of despair and miscalculation—and until America accepts that truth, every strike it makes will plant the seeds of the next war.

When nuclear policy sounds like a bathroom joke, FAFO stops being a meme and starts reading like the instruction label on a world-ending button.

A former Army HUMINT team leader who treated Top Secret access like a ticket to Beijing now has four years to think about the keys he tried to hand a hostile service.

From a blood-slicked LNER carriage to a White House red line on Nigeria and a Navy strike sinking a smuggler in the Caribbean, Saturday night showed how violence, policy, and power can collide at speed. Welcome to Sunday, November 2, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

From U.S. helicopters pushing relief into storm battered Jamaica to Maduro drilling four million militia for a fight he says is coming while El Fasher bleeds under RSF atrocities, this week reads like a field manual on power, logistics, and civilians paying the bill. It’s Saturday, November 1, 2025. This is your SOFREP Evening Brief.

From empty SNAP cards and sickout-slowed skies to a “97 percent” win policed with curfews and an internet blackout, the through-line is brutal and simple: hungry families, stranded travelers, and silenced voters pay while leaders trade blame and phone numbers. Welcome to Saturday, November 1st, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

NASA’s quiet supersonic jet soars as global tensions rise from Gaza to Ukraine. Here’s what’s making headlines this Friday evening.

Bombing drug boats can rattle a cartel’s supply line for a moment, but as a strategy it seeds legal and ethical trouble, alienates coastal communities we need as partners, and ultimately cedes the long fight to traffickers who adapt faster than we can drop ordnance.

Pentagon expands Guard powers as global tensions flare from Europe to Asia. Here’s your Friday Morning Brief rundown, October 31, 2025.

Trump skips APEC as China takes lead; crises deepen from Gaza to Sudan’s Darfur. Here’s what’s making headlines this Thursday evening.

Back home I kept checking my watch as if Iraq still owned my hours, wrestling to set down anger and pride so I could ask the only question that matters: what moral ground must we stand on before we spend blood again.