Army announces new deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan for 600 troops

The United States Army announced two new deployments for around 600 soldiers to support operations in Iraq and Afghanistan on Wednesday. Four hundred soldiers from the 1st Armored Division headquarters at Fort Bliss, Texas are slated to augment forces engaged in Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq. Once there, the 1st Armored Division headquarters will assume the role […]

Female Kurdish Snipers cut ISIS down

In an abandoned luxury apartment building in Til Kocher, Syria, a group of young women laugh, sing songs, and prepare chai tea for their guests. In the adjacent room is an arsenal of weapons ranging from American M4 rifles to Hungarian-made Dragunovs and locally manufactured Zagrov .50-caliber sniper rifles. The cheerful young women enjoying their […]

Afghanistan is Planning to Double Its Special Operations Forces

Afghanistan’s Special Forces have been taking on a lion’s share of the fighting against the Taliban and other insurgent forces in the country. Now the military is planning to double the size of the 17,000-man force to double the number. While Afghanistan’s military now numbers over 300,000 personnel, the small Special Operations part of the […]

Photo of the Day: Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet Launches from USS H.W. Bush

What more could you want right? F-18 taking off to go get ISIS. You want more? Ok, watch the very cool video below then… Watch from the Flight Deck of the USS Bush as a Hornet takes a cat shot ARABIAN GULF (March 23, 2017) An F/A-18E Super Hornet attached to the “Golden Warriors” of […]

CIA and Pentagon given expanded power in counter terrorism fight

Lost in the pandemonium of the last few weeks’ focus on the possible repeal of Obamacare, passage (or not) of a new health care bill, possible Trump campaign ties to the Russian government, and all the other shenanigans swirling about Washington, D.C. these days, was pretty clear evidence that the Trump administration has delegated quite […]

Conflicting casualty figures a week after Iraq Mosul blast

Conflicting accounts emerged on Sunday about an explosion in Iraq’s Mosul a week ago after a U.S.-led coalition strike against Islamic State that local officials say collapsed buildings, killing and burying many people. Iraq’s military said 61 bodies had been recovered from a destroyed building that Islamic State had booby-trapped in west Mosul, but that […]

‘Raise the Black’ Green Berets Raise Money For Fallen Iraqi CTS Comrades

Former Green Berets who selected, trained, and fought alongside the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) are watching with pride the fighting is doing in Iraq while trying to drive ISIS from the country. And now some of the Special Operations soldiers are trying to help the families of their fallen comrades by raising money for […]

Bangladesh bomb blasts kill three, scores injured

At least three people, including a policeman, were killed and scores wounded in two separate bomb blasts on Saturday near a militant hideout that was raided by commandos in northeastern Bangladesh, police said. The explosions in the Sylhet district came a day after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a security checkpoint near the […]

FBI Director again warns of ‘terrorist diaspora’ of ISIS fighters returning home

In a speech at the University of Texas at Austin this week, FBI Director James Comey again warned of the coming ‘terrorist diaspora’ that will ensue following the collapse of ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The Islamic State has attracted an unprecedented amount of international support since its inception in 2014. Tens of thousands of […]