Photos: The aftermath of the Houthi rebels’ attack on the UAE Ship ‘HSV-2 Swift’

Photos: The aftermath of the Houthi rebels’ attack on the UAE Ship ‘HSV-2 Swift’

Check out the aftermath of the Houthi rebel missile attack on the the UAE auxiliary ship ‘HSV-2 Swift’.   Below is video of the alleged attack. According to Fox News, Houthi rebels fired multiple rockets at the ship. After the incident, the U.S. sent three Navy vessels to assist the UAE. The U.S. Navy dispatched three warships near the […]

Russia shoots down US jet marking beginning of WWIII (This could be a future headline)

Russia shoots down US jet marking beginning of WWIII (This could be a future headline)

Just kidding. But this headline or something like it might be featured on your news feeds.  Russia could shoot down a US aircraft, however, and the response from the West will be a monumental decision. Russia has propped up its air defense capability in Syria. Please remember that Russia, right or wrong, has ground authority […]

Watch: Iran unveils a their latest UAV, modeled after the U.S. UAV that crashed in 2011

Watch: Iran unveils a their latest UAV, modeled after the U.S. UAV that crashed in 2011

In the video below, Iranian Press TV reveals the latest Iranian “domestically” produced stealth UAV. Their pro-Iranian political analyst, who is based in London, states that America should realize that Iran is a “force to be reckoned with.” He insisted that the new UAV was manufactured to show the pro-American media and world that they can […]

Iran’s global force projection network

Iran’s global force projection network

Iranian influence can be found around the world. It’s not ubiquitous as U.S. influence, but it is powerful. The Iranian global projection network has been in place and growing since before 9/11 and through recent tensions. The media has been focused on Sunni terrorist organizations such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda as of late. But, if […]

IRGC Special Forces officer’s death highlights involvement in Syria

IRGC Special Forces officer’s death highlights involvement in Syria

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has confirmed the death of a senior Iranian Special Forces officer in Syria. Colonel Second Class Mohammad-Reza Zarealvani was a member of the Ground Forces (IRGC-GF) Saberin unit who was killed during an “advisory operation” on Sept. 27, according to a statement by the IRGC’s Ansar al Hossein Corps (Hamedan province). The IRGC continues to […]

Iran’s top leader says Ahmadinejad is too divisive for political comeback

Iran’s top leader says Ahmadinejad is too divisive for political comeback

Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been effectively blocked from seeking a return to office after Iran’s supreme leader decided the firebrand populist would prove too divisive in next year’s elections, state media reported Monday. The comments by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei signaled a preemptive strike against possible attempts by Ahmadinejad to build a movement to […]

Canadian-Iranian academic Homa Hoodfar released by Iran

Canadian-Iranian academic Homa Hoodfar released by Iran

The release was given on “humanitarian grounds”, Iranian state media report. Homa Hoodfar, 65, was one of several dual nationals being held for alleged “acts against national security”. She was ill and is being returned to Canada via Oman, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported, citing the foreign ministry. Mr Trudeau said the federal […]

In the Iran-Iraq War, F-5s and MiG-21s Fought to a Standstill

In the Iran-Iraq War, F-5s and MiG-21s Fought to a Standstill

There have been countless discussions over which is the better fighter jet— the U.S.-made Northrop F-5E Tiger II or the Soviet MiG-21 Fishbed. That can be a hard argument to settle. The Iran-Iraq war was probably a draw for the two types. More than 15,000 of these two cheap, lightweight, simple-to-maintain and -operate fighters were […]

Watch: Mountain warfare – ‘Kurdish’ PKK assaults a Turkish army outpost

Watch: Mountain warfare – ‘Kurdish’ PKK assaults a Turkish army outpost

The PKK is not affiliated with the Kurdistan Regional Government or the Peshmerga. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party or PKK (Kurdish: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê‎) is a far left-wing guerilla organization that operates in the mountainous border regions of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.

The combat between the PKK and Turkish army within this video demonstrates one of many longstanding conflicts in volatile proximity of the fight against, Daesh, or the Islamic State, as well as the Syrian Civil War.

Post-Sistani Iraq, Iran, and the Future of Shia Islam

Post-Sistani Iraq, Iran, and the Future of Shia Islam

During a recent trip to my hometown of Najaf in southern Iraq, I stumbled across a book titled My Leader Khamenei in the personal library of a cleric studying in the Islamic seminary known as the Hawza. He had picked it up at a bookstore near the shrine of Imam Ali, where the first Shia Imam is buried. […]

Tough to shut down Afghanistan when we’re vested to kill in Pakistan

Tough to shut down Afghanistan when we’re vested to kill in Pakistan

The war in Afghanistan is both different and the same as Iraq. The Afghanistan theatre is seen as a righteous war. Iraq is not. The Iraqis have shown more progress than the Afghans. Empire after empire entered Afghanistan and went home empty-handed. Maybe because there’s nothing to do there. Except our Afghan war has much to […]