ISIS

ISIS has committed yet another attack on targets in the West, bringing their brand of terror to the heart of the City of Love.

Outbound travel has been restricted, and the first city-wide curfew since 1944 has been enacted. Reports indicate 1,500 soldiers are being deployed to Paris.

Check back for constant updates as SOFREP’s writers and reporters bring you breaking news.   ISIS’s Act of War in the City of Love: America Far Behind? With these newest developments in Paris, heads of state from France, the UK, and the U.S. have made statements of solidarity, resilience, and threats of their own retaliation. PM David Cameron […]

Early reports are indicating that British citizen Mohamed Emwazi, AKA Jihad John, has been killed by a US drone strike in the so-called Islamic State’s capital city of Raqqa, Syria.  Jihad John was used as an ISIS frontman, a sort of Cobra Commander figure, in propaganda films in which hostages such as John Foley were beheaded. […]

On October 22nd, a joint U.S.-Kurdish raid was launched to rescue approximately 70 hostages facing “imminent mass execution” at the hands of ISIS. During the course of the operation near Hawija, Iraq, a member of a U.S. Army special mission unit was killed, reportedly when the Kurdish special forces conducting the assault were pinned down […]

How Putin responds will shape the entire morass of violence in Syria and Iraq and beyond.

Even ISIS jihadi types can get on board with American holidays like Halloween.

Terrorism does not adhere to geographical boundaries and can not be considered an issue that is the problem of one, or any, country in particular.

There are three leading theories regarding the loss of Metrojet 9268 on Oct. 31, 2015: 1) a missile fired from the ground, 2) mechanical malfunction which resulted in catastrophic damage, and 3) an explosion from inside the aircraft. To recap the tragic flight, Metrojet 9268 took off from Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport headed for St. […]

According to Egyptian Civil Aviation authorities, a Russian airliner crashed on the Sinai Peninsula yesterday, killing all 224 people aboard.

Today President Obama has authorized the deployment of US Special Operations Forces to Syria.  The strategic signaling has been present for at least a month so this comes as no surprise to our readers.  The covert action programs the CIA and SOF ran out of Turkey to arm and train the Free Syrian Army (FSA) were […]

By positioning a cruiser armed with S300 missiles west of Latakia, the Russians have closed the Israeli Air Force’s favorite corridor of flight into Syria.