A Russian space agency official was suspiciously stabbed to death in prison

Russian authorities are investigating the suspicious prison death of a former top space agency official charged with embezzlement. Vladimir Evdokimov, a former top director at Russia’s national space agency Roscosmos, was found dead with stab wounds to the heart and neck in the bathroom of his prison cell last week. Russian media reports that one of the inmates […]

More Russians are dying in Syria than are being acknowledged: Report

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 […]

Tillerson hosts first anti-ISIS coalition meeting since Trump took office

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 […]

The Syrian war rages on

An article was released on Wednesday, March 15, by the Washington Post stating that the U.S. Military is drawing up plans to expand the presence of American troops in Northern Syria in the weeks ahead, potentially adding up to 1,000 ground troops to the region. According to the Post article, “[w]hile the new contingent of […]

The bot connection: Donald Trump and Instagram butt models

The meteoric rise of Donald Trump from unlikely fringe candidate to 45th President of the United States has many attributions. How you interpret the phenomenon known as “the Donald” is likely strongly correlated along partisan lines. If you hate Trump, you can find ample material across the internet that is replete with reasons why he […]

Comey: The Russians ‘were unusually loud in their intervention — it’s almost as if they wanted us to know’

Russia’s intervention in the US election was “unusually loud,” FBI Director James Comey said during a hearing on Monday before the House Intelligence Committee on the Russian efforts to undermine Democrat Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. “They were unusually loud in their intervention,” Comey said when asked by Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida what the […]

A new $10 million Florida plant may provide SOCOM with American made AK-47s

The AK-47 is perhaps one of the most iconic firearms on the planet.  The hearty design and famed reliability offered by the platform combined with the huge numbers of AK-47s produced by the Soviet Union during the cold war have made it a staple of many nations’ militaries.  Some have even gone so far as […]

FBI Director says no information supports Trump wiretapping tweets

The heads of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have testified that there is no information to indicate a wiretap was ordered by President Obama on President Trump. FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers testified before the House Intelligence Committee, which has been conducting an […]

U.S.-allied Kurd militia says struck Syria base deal with Russia

The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said Russia was setting up a military base in northwestern Syria under a bilateral agreement and will help train its fighters – a step that would anger Turkey as it tries to block Kurdish gains near its borders. The Russian defense ministry, however, said it had no plans to open […]

Russian military set to absorb rebel fighters inside restive Georgian region

The Russian government, under the direction of Vladimir Putin, has drawn up orders to bring separatist forces inside the country of Georgia under the control of the Russian military. The separatist forces in question reside in the region of South Ossetia, a long-contested area on Georgia’s northern border with Russia, and one of the sites […]