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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 […]
Despite criticism from many human rights advocates Dinko Valev has made a name for himself as a self proclaimed ISIS bounty hunter in the country of Bulgaria. Bulgaria shares a border with Turkey and according to the 29-year-old Valev migrants are crossing that border without authorization and they may be terrorists. Claiming to already have […]
According to reports coming out of Iraq, ISIS snipers have begun firing on men, women, and children attempting to flee Mosul under cover of darkness. Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq and largest ISIS stronghold in the nation, has been the site of extensive fighting, as coalition backed Iraqi security forces have worked to […]
Despite criticism from many human rights advocates Dinko Valev has made a name for himself as a self proclaimed ISIS bounty hunter in the country of Bulgaria. Bulgaria shares a border with Turkey and according to the 29 year old Valev migrants are crossing that border without authorization and they may be terrorists. Claiming to […]
In 2015, SOFREP interviewed Polad Talabani, the commander of Kurdistan’s elite Counter-Terrorism Group or CTG. At the time, he spoke about how he wanted his men to get back to conducting real Special Operations missions behind enemy lines, rather than engaging in conventional infantry operations alongside the Peshmerga as they had been in places like […]
London became the scene of the latest European terror attack on Wednesday, as a lone man drove a four-wheel drive vehicle through a crowd of people before going on to stab a police officer to death on the grounds of the UK Parliament. At least five people were killed, with forty more injured, seven of […]
The Russian government has been consistently under-reporting their casualty figures from the Syrian Civil War, a Reuters investigation has found. After a combined effort from Reuters and the Conflict Intelligence Team investigative group, researchers found that Russian casualties were actually three times the amount of what was being officially reported by the Russian government, and […]
On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will begin hosting the first anti-ISIS coalition meeting since President Trump took office. Delegates and foreign ministers from sixty-eight nations are in attendance with important decisions to make about the future of anti-ISIS military efforts around the world for the U.S.-led coalition. President Trump vowed to make […]
Vehicular attacks have been on the rise in the past few years. It’s less rare and emerging as a possible common tactic for newly radicalized terrorists. On the evening of 14 July 2016, a 19-ton cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, resulting in […]
The US-led coalition has dropped both American and Syrian fighters behind the city of Raqqa in an effort to cut off the ISIS escape route out of the city. That’s an encouraging sign that perhaps the battle to drive out the insurgents from Syria is going well. According to reports from inside Syria, five helicopters, […]
As the Trump administration cedes greater decision-making authority back to battlefield commanders in Syria and Iraq, more U.S. troops are likely to be on the ground in Syria for the coming Raqqa offensive. Citing defense officials familiar with the matter, the Washington Post reported that Secretary of Defense James Mattis will be approving the deployment […]
Iraqi army helicopters strafed and rocketed Islamic State positions inside Mosul’s Old City on Sunday as ground troops fought fierce street battles to close in on the strategic prize of the al-Nuri Mosque. An air strike by the U.S.-led coalition backing Iraq forces in their campaign to retake Mosul also killed six foreign militant commanders […]
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