Update: Hotel siege in Kabul, Americans killed

The siege on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul lasted 13 hours, and since then the information flooding in has constantly been updating. The numbers of dead range from 22 to 30, of multiple nationalities. Now reports are saying that Americans are counted among the dead, however the state department has yet to release the names […]

Update: 22 dead as Kabul hotel siege comes to a close

Kabul, Afghanistan — The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the siege on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul that resulted in 22 dead. The siege lasted for 12 hours and there were reports of shooting, explosions and a fire that broke out. People were seen using bed sheets to climb out of their windows and down […]

Ukraine Conflict Report: Dzerzhynske, an in-depth look at the front line

 Ukraine Conflict: Dzerzhynske (Donetsk Oblast) Background:  The War in Donbass is an armed conflict in the Donbass region of Ukraine. From the beginning of March 2014, protests by pro-Russian and anti-government groups took place in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine–together commonly known as the “Donbass,” in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and the Euromaidan movement. These demonstrations, which followed the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, were part […]

Watch: The Ukrainian Front, Two Years, in Two Minutes

Two years of fighting in Ukraine, in two minutes. How the lines have changed in Donbass, Ukraine. TSN.ua assembled this video, using the maps of recorded hostilities in Donbass, Ukraine. The first maps of this type began to appear in June 2014, and has since been updated daily, by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.  The […]

Is SOFREP the Target of Russian Covert Action?

Recent comments on Twitter and on SOFREP.com’s Facebook page have spurred some of us here at the site to wonder if we are experiencing first-hand a Russian covert action program to counter-message what the Russian government sees as articles and opinions hostile to Russian interests. Recent SOFREP articles by Brandon Webb and Eric Jones, for […]