Tag: Europe

The Bari-Palese CARA Refugee Reception Center in Italy’s southern province of Puglia was built to host 850 refugees. These days, it’s overflowing with 1,389—mostly men from Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh who wait behind high walls and spirals of barbed wire for their political-asylum applications to be heard. The center is a hotbed of discontent, and most […]

V-E Day Marked End of Long Road for World War II Troops When President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin simultaneously announced that Nazi Germany had surrendered on May 8, 1945, the joy Americans felt was tempered by where they were. The war that began with Germany […]

From the outside, with its high minarets and bulbous Mughal-style dome, the Wilmersdorf mosque, located on Brienner Street in southwest Berlin, looks much the same as it did when it was built in the 1920s. But the institution, just like the city around it, has changed. Today, the mosque is a quiet place. It mainly […]

Reddit recently asked an interesting question, and I decided to expand on it here, at SOFREP. You’re in the CIA and you suspect a fellow agent to be a spy. They’re 25-35 and speak perfect English. What question do you ask to determine whether they grew up in the U.S.? Isaac Asimov once answered this questions […]

In the face of a “resurgent Russia” and other emerging challenges, NATO needs to stay agile and ready to “fight tonight,” the alliance’s new supreme allied commander for Europe said today. Army Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti assumed command of NATO’s Allied Command Operations from Air Force Gen. Philip M. Breedlove in a ceremony today at NATO’s […]

US Defence Secretary Ash Carter has accused Russia of “nuclear sabre-rattling” and of being intent on eroding international order. He said he regretted strained relations with Moscow but said the US had to “prioritize deterrence” on Nato’s eastern flank. US-Russian ties have been strained by the Ukraine crisis and recent military encounters in the Baltic […]

Barack Obama has accused Europe of being “complacent” about defense by failing to meet the NATO two percent spending target. It came as he delivered a passionate plea for the European Union to hold together, saying it is one of the “greatest political and economic achievements of modern times.” In an address in Hanover, the […]

An assembly of paramilitary pro-Russian separatist met within the borders of a member of the European Union and NATO – Bulgaria. In February 2016 in Bourgas, Bulgarian city on the Black Sea shore, a gathering of 13 various pro-Russian organizations including the “Organization for the Protection of Bulgarian citizens” – Burgas, “20th April”, “Veliko Tarnovo […]

On Thursday, April 14th, a Russian SU-27 fighter “performed erratic and aggressive maneuvers” in proximity to a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft.

Fighters returning to their home countries from Syria and Iraq should be recruited to talk publicly about their experiences, the EU’s senior counter-terrorism official has urged. Gilles de Kerchove said that in cases where they were not considered a threat, such people could be used by governments to reveal details of the brutal conditions within the so-called […]

New video and information on the route and description of the surviving Brussels bomber have been released by investigators. Federal prosecutor Eric Van Der Sypt asked for those who “might have filmed or taken a photograph of the suspect” or believe they have any useful information, to call 0800 30 300 (in Belgium) or 00 32 25544488 […]

Europe’s migrant crisis has given rise to an American institution of citizen action. In Bulgaria, an increase of concerned citizens has taken it upon themselves to patrol their nation’s border. The citizens border patrol has labeled themselves as volunteers and not as a militia like their American counterparts, and their efforts also seem to be […]