Providing Aid In Conflict Zones Is Getting More And More Dangerous
On Monday, a series of aerial bombs struck Sudan's South Kordofan province, home to communities who are sympathetic to the newly formed country of South Sudan.Two bombs in particular struck a hospital...
View ArticleHere's What Average Iraqis Are Saying About The Return Of US Troops
ERBIL, Iraq — It was a moment some thought would never come. US President Barack Obama ordered American troops back onto Iraqi soil. Granted, it's only a few hundred this time, and they are ostensibly...
View ArticleThe Iraqi Government Is Airing This Bizarre PSA To Turn People Against ISIS
The Iraqi government, which has been vehemently criticized for failing to fend off ISIS militants, has apparently tried to ramp up anti-ISIS sentiment using this very creepy television commercial: The...
View ArticleThe 5 Crucial Skills You Learn In Spy School
It's not often we get a look inside the secret world of spies.While intelligence officers continue to operate in the shadows, a fantastic article by Josef Hufelschulte of Focus Magazine gives a rare...
View ArticleISIS Militants Are Trolling The White House With A Photoshop Mocking Michelle...
Besides taking over a significant portion of Iraq, radical militants are now trolling the White House.Patrick Baz, a photo manager for Agence France Presse, spotted a photo being passed around by...
View ArticleHere's The Crazy Amount Of Gear Military Medics Carry Every Day In War
Some of the most-respected and loved members of a military unit are the ones who don't do much fighting.They are the combat medics — or corpsman to the Navy and Marines — and they are often the first...
View ArticleThese Images Show How Hard Daily Life Has Gotten In Ukraine's War-Torn East...
Fighting in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian separatists — bolstered by militants with less-than plausibly deniable ties to Russia — and the Ukrainian government is continuing despite a soon to be...
View ArticleStunning Photo Shows Five Types Of Fighter Jets Flying In Formation
As already explained, Cope Taufan 14 is a biennial Large Employment Exercise taking place from Jun. 9 to 20 in Malaysia, to improve U.S. and Malaysian cooperation.During the exercise, which also...
View ArticleThe Air Force Is Already Planning Its Next-Generation Drone Fleet
Air Force leaders are in the early stages of planning the service’s next-generation drone fleet that could reshape the Air Force’s entire fleet and continue to lower the number of airborne pilots,...
View ArticleThe World's Three Largest Arms Importers All Border One Another
The world's three largest arms importers — India, China, and Pakistan — all share borders with one another, some of which are in dispute. These disagreements have occasionally led to armed conflict,...
View ArticleISIS Is Spreading These Propaganda Photos All Over Social Media
On June 18, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (ISIS) media wing in Wilayat Ninewa released a series of photos to social media sites illustrating the group's staggering gains. The images also...
View ArticleAmazing Cockpit Selfies From The Only National Apache Helicopter Demo Team In...
Dutch F-16 and Apache Demo teams trained together ahead of the Gilze-Rijen airshow, hosted in the Netherlands. Here are some shots, once again taken with GoPro cameras, captured by the Royal...
View ArticleSyria May Attack If The UN Continues To Deliver Aid Without Asking For...
Syria's government warned the U.N. Security Council that delivering humanitarian aid across its borders into rebel-held areas without its consent would amount to an attack, suggesting it would have the...
View ArticleThe Staggering Cost Of The Last Decade's US War In Iraq — In Numbers
There's a huge difference between the very limited expansion of the U.S.'s presence in Iraq that president Barack Obama announced on June 19 and the full-on U.S. invasion of the last decade.Still, the...
View ArticleThe Sunni Rebellion In Iraq
Almost a century ago, as war raged in Flanders, Britain took the fateful decision to carve up the Ottoman empire. It wanted to stop Russia and others from gaining influence over Islam that could be...
View ArticleUS Spies Were Warning Maliki For Years Of The Mess Iraq Was Becoming
U.S. intelligence agencies have repeatedly warned top government officials that Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki and his policies were gravely antagonizing his country's Sunni population,...
View ArticleSpecial Forces Heading To Iraq Won't Be Getting Extra 'Danger Pay'
Special Forces troops heading to Iraq to advise the Iraqi security forces will not receive combat pay but will have immunity from local law, Pentagon officials said Friday."This is not a combat...
View ArticleHere Are Some Of The Most Bizarre Ideas From The CIA
The Central Intelligence Agency secretly developed an Osama bin Laden action figure whose face peeled off to reveal a scary devil beneath, according to an account first published this week in The...
View ArticleIraqis Say They Don't Want US Troops To Return
KIRKUK, Iraq -- As President Barack Obama considers taking targeted military action against the Sunni militants associated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Iraqis, scarred by memories...
View ArticleNorth Korea Hates Seth Rogen's New Movie
Don't expect to see James Franco and Seth Rogen joining Dennis Rodman on any North Korean vacations in the near future.The well-known pals have been condemned by the regime for their upcoming movie...
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