April 4, 2024
This is just the latest in a series of stalemates, fiascos, or outright defeats that have come to typify America’s Global War on Terror.
A US Army Special Forces sergeant gleefully observes a Nigerian soldier during team movement drills in 2017.
(US Army / Spc. Zayid Ballesteros)
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Leaked footage has revealed that one of the four terrorists who carried out the sick Moscow massacre attack cried and screamed as he was caught by Russian authorities, who would go on to cut off his ear and make him eat it.
Two of the four ISIS terrorists who were charged overnight with terrorism have pleaded guilty, after they were caught, allegedly tortured and detained by Russian security services following the deadly attack at a Moscow concert hall on Friday
Israeli troops claim to have captured holiday homes belonging to numerous Hamas leaders, including a property that the terror group’s chief in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, vacations in.
Dubbed ‘Gaza’s Bin Laden’, Sinwar was elected leader of Hamas in Gaza in 2017, and is considered to be one of the masterminds behind the bloody October 7 attacks.
He was raised in Khan Younis and is believed to have had multiple properties in the southern city, which Israel’s forces have been increasingly
Images have emerged appearing to show Israeli forces preparing to flood the labyrinth of tunnels used by Hamas under the Gaza Strip with sea water.
Israel is said to have completed installing at least five pumps about a mile north of the Al-Shati refugee camp that could move thousands of cubic metres of water per hour – meaning they could flood the 300-mile network of tunnels within weeks.
Their plan would be to drive out the terrorists from the tunnels
Russian soldiers have raped and tortured men as well as women in Ukraine as a weapon of war to ‘destroy’ the population for generations to come, international activists and lawyers have revealed.
Some Ukrainian men who were detained by Russian soldiers in the Kherson region were raped with sticks while others were tortured with electrical shocks to their genitals, experts say.
The stigma surrounding wartime sexual violence and Ukraine’s conservative society means it can be particularly challenging for male rape
Hamas fighters carrying RPGs have engaged in a firefight with IDF troops at a Gaza hospital this afternoon, Israel claims – as Tel Aviv’s forces continue to surround a medical facility believed to be hiding the terrorists’ headquarters.
While fighting has so far been largely concentrated in a tightening circle around Al Shifa, Gaza’s biggest hospital, the Israel Defense Forces released footage this afternoon claiming to show Hamas fighters with RPGs outside a second hospital in the territory, al-Quds.
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Hamas officials today said an Israeli air strike slammed into another refugee camp, ‘massacring’ at least 15 people with dozens more trapped under the rubble.
The large explosion ripped through clusters of homes in the densely packed Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, leaving a deep, debris-littered crater in its wake.
Exhausted Palestinians desperately searched through the rubble of their homes for loved ones, their screams piercing the air as they found the lifeless bodies of their mothers and children.
Israeli tanks entered the edge of Gaza city today, while IDF troops were pelted with rocks as they carried out raids against armed Palestinian groups in the West Bank.
The signs that the Jewish state was stepping up its military operations in the region came as a UN official warned the Gaza Strip was on the bring of social collapse, with mobs looting warehouses for food and families forced to drink dirty water.
Fears for the more than 2.2 million
In the days before a suicide bomber killed 13 service personnel at Kabul airport in 2021, U.S. military commanders were aware of the threat and twice missed chances to take out the deadly terrorist network behind the plot, according to a new book.
The Taliban, who had seized control of Afghanistan, refused a request to raid a hotel that was a known staging post for ISIS-K, who carried out the atrocity.
And at around the same time, superior officers vetoed
