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The latest coup in Burkina Faso is not aimed at creating a showdown with the previous coup, the group’s new military leader said. “The fight we are engaged in is not about power,” said Captain Ibrahim Traore, the new leader. Traore made his comments this weekend while speaking to Voice …

The wife of the U.S. Army’s first transgender officer berated him as a ‘coward’ for having qualms about giving senior officers’ medical files to the Russian government. The couple is accused of trying to deliver the documents as part of an effort to assist Russia in connection with the conflict …

A federal jury convicted a Chinese national and former Army Reservist for acting within the United States as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Ji Chaoqun, 31, of Chicago, was found guilty on one count of conspiracy to …

An Iranian bombing campaign targeted Iraq’s northern Kurdish region on Sept. 28, killing least nine people and wounding 32 others, the Kurdish Regional Government’s Health Ministry said. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) fired on targets in Iraq’s northern Kurdish regional capital of Irbil and the eastern Iraqi city of …

At approximately 7:05 pm in Syria on September 18th, a rocket attack targeting the Green Village base in northeast Syria failed to strike US or Coalition forces or equipment. Three 107mm rockets targeted the base. A fourth rocket along with rocket tubes was found at the launch point, approximately 5 …

Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close associate of President Vladimir Putin, has admitted he founded the private paramilitary Vagner group after years of denying any links to the mercenaries who have been involved in the ongoing war in Ukraine, as well as conflicts in Syria and Africa. In response to a question …

The two Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea were the result of sabotage, Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said. “It is now the clear assessment by authorities that these are deliberate actions. It was not an accident,” Frederiksen said when speaking to journalists. “There is no information yet to …

The death toll from a school shooting in Russia has increased to 15 people, including 11 children, while 24 people were injured, including 22 minors, officials said on Monday. The shootings occurred amid widespread resistance to mobilization orders from Moscow, for men to fight in Ukraine. “By this point, the …

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has attacked a militant group’s base located in the north of neighboring Iraq, state media reported. Iran has faced more than a week of protests and unrest over the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, who died in custody after being detained by …

Several Iranian government and state-owned websites have been taken down by Anonymous, the international activist hacker group says, in a move of support for nationwide protests that followed the death of a 22-year-old woman following her arrest by the morality police. The website of the Iranian presidency, the government-affiliated Fars …