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The 5 Big Winners Of The Iraq Crisis
It’s not easy being Iraqi these days. Hundreds of thousands have been displaced by fighting, an extremist Islamist group is intent on establishing a brutal regime throughout the north, and the army...
View ArticleFrightening ACLU Report Shows How Militarized America's Cops Really Are
A sobering new report from the American Civil Liberties Union reveals how the U.S. military transfers a shocking amount of military-grade equipment to local cops who often misuse these tools.The...
View ArticleKilling In Combat Has One Surprising Impact On Soldiers' Future Behavior
Researchers studying Army soldiers before and after their combat deployments found higher rates of alcohol abuse after they returned home. But they were shocked to see an opposite trend among those who...
View ArticleDestroying Iran's Networks Is The Key To Ending ISIS
Rand Paul is on the anti-war warpath. "What would airstrikes accomplish?" the Kentucky Senator asked in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, even as he refused to rule them out in the American response to the...
View ArticleHere's The Flashpoint That Could Soon Plunge Iraq Into Full-Blown Civil War
The golden-domed Samarra shrine is once again a flash point that threatens to plunge all of Iraq into a full-blown civil war. Samarra's al-Askari Mosque contains the mausoleums of two Shia Imams,...
View ArticleSyrian Forces Just Bombed ISIS Targets Inside Iraq
In a sign of the expanding international crisis sparked by ISIS's rapid advances, Syrian warplanes have bombed some of the jihadist group's bases in Iraq, Ali A. Nabhan and Matt Bradley of The Wall...
View ArticleIndia Is Co-Developing A Fifth-Generation Fighter Plane Alongside Russia
Within the next few years, India is set to join a select group of countries with a fifth-generation fighter plane in its arsenal.India's upcoming jet, the Sukhoi/HAL Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft...
View ArticleHere's The Crazy Cache Of Military Weapons Arizona's Cops Have At Their...
Law enforcement in Arizona these days resembles a military. At least, that's what its weapons collection would imply.A new ACLU report on the militarization of America's police makes it clear Arizona's...
View ArticleTop Kurdish Official: 'Iraq Is Not Our Neighbor, ISIS Is Our Neighbor'
The reality on the ground has changed drastically since the Americans made the Kurds withdraw from Kirkuk in 2003.While the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) and other Sunni militant groups are...
View ArticleUS Special Forces Arrive In Baghdad
About 90 Special Forces troops arrived in Baghdad Tuesday to begin an advisory mission to the Iraqi military that could lead to airstrikes against Islamic militants now controlling large swaths of...
View ArticleHow Arming Today's Weak States Has Led To Arming Insurgencies, Like ISIS
With the ISIS forces entering the outer region of Baghdad, the move towards Iraq’s capital lead to a lot of equipment being captured by those forces. This new and advanced equipment will likely play an...
View ArticleAir Force Resumes F-35 Testing — Just Two Days After One Caught Fire On The...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force said it will resume flights of Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 A-model fighter jets at a Florida air base on Wednesday, two days after one of the jets caught fire...
View ArticleEmpty Bedrooms Capture The Lives That Fallen Soldiers Left Behind
When the ban on media coverage of fallen soldiers returning to Dover Air Force Base was lifted in early 2009, the decision — like the ban itself — was greeted with mixed feelings.For some veterans,...
View ArticleWatch A Corsair Jet Carry Out Strafing Passes 24 Years Ago
Here’s an interesting clip from the Grayling Air Gunnery Range in Michigan on a rainy July day in 1990. Although it’s not the best quality (it's from a VHS video filmed by Chad Thomas from Jetwash...
View ArticleIraqi Kurdistan's Immense Oil Wealth Means It Does Not Have To Answer To Baghdad
Terrorists have taken over much of Iraq in recent weeks, leaving the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in the country's north perhaps the most stable place within Iraqi borders. But the jihadist...
View ArticleMilitants In Iraq Are Surprisingly Brilliant On Social Media
In addition to seizing key towns in Iraq, Sunni militants in the country have demonstrated a remarkable ability to control and amplify their message far beyond the Middle East."The advance of an army...
View ArticleThis Map Shows How Connected The Wars In Syria And Iraq Have Become
The wars in Iraq and Syria have effectively merged into one sprawling conflict, especially in light of the massive blitz across northern and central Iraq by militant group ISIS and its affiliates. The...
View ArticleAmerica's SWAT Teams Are More Dangerous Than Ever
Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams are equipped to handle hostage situations and armed criminals, but local police are increasingly using them to execute search warrants and drug searches — a...
View ArticleDespite A Ceasefire, Paramilitary Volunteers Continue To Head To War-Torn...
On June 23, Kyiv sent over 500 men off to the battlefields of eastern Ukraine. Outside the city, well over 400 soldiers swore solemn oaths to the Donbas Battalion, a paramilitary unit led by Donbas...
View ArticleISIS Is Closing In On Iraq's Most Important Dam
Extremist fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are bearing down on the biggest piece of Iraq's water infrastructure, The New York Times reports. Extremist militants are beginning to...
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