On this day in history: Israeli Prime Minister assassinated

On this day in history: Israeli Prime Minister assassinated

On November 4, 1995, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Prime Minister of Israel was killed on the steps of a city hall in Tel Aviv, taking three rounds to the chest and dying later in the hospital. Yitzhak Rabin had an extensive military career before his entry into politics. As a new recruit, he participated […]

BREAKING: Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl sentenced, no prison time

BREAKING: Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl sentenced, no prison time

SGT Bowe Bergdahl was sentenced on Friday after lengthy military court proceedings have come to a close. He will serve no time in prison, but has been dishonorably discharged. The prosecution was trying to swing a 14 year sentence, a downgrade from the life sentence that was also a possibility. Bergdahl’s attorneys got what they […]

Crowds flood Yangon in support of Burma’s actions against the Rohingya

Crowds flood Yangon in support of Burma’s actions against the Rohingya

Yangon (formerly known as Rangoon) is the largest city in Myanmar (Burma). Over 2,000 locals have flooded the streets in support of the Army’s recent actions against the Rohingya people in the western areas of the country. Many are Buddhist nationalists and some are even Buddhist monks. They have expressed a desire to strengthen the […]

US forces capture key militant from the 2012 Benghazi attacks

US forces capture key militant from the 2012 Benghazi attacks

On Monday, the White House announced that U.S forces captured have Mustafa al-Imam in Libya. Al-Imam had been linked to the attacks on U.S. personnel in Benghazi on September 11, 2012–the infamous battle at the embassy and CIA annex that claimed the lives of four Americans: Ambassador Chris Stevens, Information Officer Sean Smith and former […]

Myanmar to repatriate Rohingya refugees after ‘textbook ethnic cleansing’

Myanmar to repatriate Rohingya refugees after ‘textbook ethnic cleansing’

The UN has called the atrocities committed in Rakhine State, Burma (Myanmar) “textbook ethnic cleansing.” It has since been responsible for the deaths of over 2,000 people and sent approximately 600,000 people fleeing for their lives to the neighboring country of Bangladesh. The country’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has recently spoken toward […]

SOFREP Exclusive: Medal of Honor Recipient James McCloughan

SOFREP Exclusive: Medal of Honor Recipient James McCloughan

Specialist Five James McCloughan’s Medal of Honor citation, like all Medal of Honor citations, will drop your jaw to the floor. A 23 year old combat medic in the middle of Vietnam, he braved heavy fire to move an injured casualty to safety and was wounded by shrapnel before saving two more. He went on […]

FBI’s undercover informant to testify regarding Russian nuclear scheme within the US

FBI’s undercover informant to testify regarding Russian nuclear scheme within the US

An undercover informant, who was under contract with Tenex, has been giving information to the FBI for around eight years now.  His efforts largely helped indict Vadim Mikerin’s illegal activities involving bribery and money laundering, and exposed the illicit dealings of Russia’s state-owned nuclear enterprise, Rosatom, within U.S. borders. This comes as controversy surrounds the […]

The ivory trade and terrorism: al-Shabaab’s potential diversionary source of income

The ivory trade and terrorism: al-Shabaab’s potential diversionary source of income

This idea has been floating around the internet for a while now–documents and reports, articles and social media posts–referring to the the ivory trade as a source of funding for terrorism. Al-Shabaab has allegedly been using the ivory trade to finance their terrorist organization, some reports claiming up to 40% of their operations. This is […]

Money that moves off the grid: ‘hawala’

Money that moves off the grid: ‘hawala’

Allegations of crooked politicians taking money from questionable sources seem like everyday news now. For example, in recent days developments have arisen in regards to whether or not the Clinton Foundation took money via a complex scheme involving Russia’s Rosatom and Vadim Mikerin. Terrorist and criminal organizations move money around in huge amounts, and they have […]

Frames of war: A timeline of war movies

Frames of war: A timeline of war movies

If you watch “Casablanca” and “Fury,” you’ll have two very different pictures of World War II. On top of the vastly different settings, everything from technology of filmmaking, to the tone of the film, to the style of acting, to the overall messages and themes–they’re all different. Much of this is simply due to different […]

The death toll in Madagascar climbs as plague spreads

The death toll in Madagascar climbs as plague spreads

According to a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 20 October, 2017, plague in Madagascar has claimed 102 lives. It has 1,297 documented cases, and a CFR (case fatality rate) of 7.9%.  To be clear: that means that of everyone who has contracted plague there, 7.9% of them have died. Madagascar is split […]