The assassination on Monday of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey at an art gallery in Ankara is unlikely to fracture relations between the two countries as they work to improve their tumultuous relationship, analysts said. “On the contrary, both Russia and Turkey will point to the murder as reason why they should cooperate more closely in […]
The US Embassy in the Turkish capital city of Ankara is currently locked down and citizens are asked to avoid the compound until tomorrow. Whether there was a second terror attack, possibly coordinated with the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey this morning, remains undetermined. Taken in totality, today’s terrorist attacks include the assassination […]
Andrei Gennadiyevich Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey was killed after a gunman began firing inside an art gallery in Ankara. In the video below, it appears he was shot in the left side of the chest. Andrei Gennadiyevich Karlov was taken to a local hospital in critical condition but has died of his injuries. The gunman […]
BEIRUT — Evacuation efforts in Syria were on the verge of fresh collapse Sunday, with thousands of people trapped inside the shattered rebel enclave of Aleppo after gunmen burned a rescue convoy bound for government areas in a neighboring province. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said evacuations were postponed for an “unknown” period, […]
For an in depth look at arctic security dynamics, SOFREP has provided a two part article on the subject. Some additional information from the Russian perspective is available from the Financial Times in the below article. -Jack Government officials and scholars argue that the Northern Sea Route (NSR), a historic sea link between Europe and […]
I am somewhat infamous for my negative reviews of movies about special operations forces. I’m not one of those guys who watches these films expecting some high degree of hyper-technical accuracy. Fictional films are just that. However, I find a lot of these films to be silly, as they claim to recreate something with authenticity, […]
The civil war in Syria enters what appears to be its bloody end game as Syrian government forces re-establish control over the city of Aleppo. As of late Tuesday, a ceasefire and evacuation agreement was reached allowing civilians from affected areas of Aleppo safe passage to the countryside. However, by Wednesday it evaporated with renewed […]
The battle for Aleppo is coming to a close and we can hope that the slaughter that has resulted from rebels and terrorists fighting the Syrian military and Russian Air Force is drawing to a conclusion as well. When I was in Syria last month, I remember being ushered into a large conference room for […]
Washington, D.C. – Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced Dec. 11 the United States will send 200 additional special operations forces to Syria. The announcement follows the creation of new authorities to provide the Syrian opposition with man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS). That provision, in addition to another creating a counter Islamic State of Iraq […]
The United States is deploying troops to Poland, the Baltic states and Romania next month as part of raising the security of the region, Polish and U.S. defense officials said Wednesday. Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz made the announcement following talks with the commander of U.S. land troops in Europe, Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, in […]
After years of fighting, the Syrian government claimed victory on Tuesday over rebel groups holding out in the besieged city of Aleppo. Reports of a ceasefire were confirmed by Russia’s envoy to the United Nations, stating that fighting would cease Tuesday evening to allow fighters that remain in rebel controlled regions of the city to […]
LONDON — As the last rebel strongholds fell in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday amid widespread reports of atrocities by pro-government forces, Britain’s Parliament was back in a familiar place: debating, but not acting. Debating is what Parliament was doing in the summer of 2013, when then-Prime Minister David Cameron was pushing […]
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