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The guilty pleas pile up as the fraud and bribery investigation has resulted in federal criminal charges against 34 U.S. Navy officials, defense contractors and the GDMA corporation. The Defense contractor Singapore-based Glenn Defense Marine Asia company has been on the scene for over 25 years. “We rstarted sending a …

UPDATE DOD: Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, died last night when he detonated an explosive device during a U.S. military operation that aimed to kill or capture him, a Pentagon official said.   An ISIS deputy and some of al-Qurayshi’s family …

Security Alert – U.S. Embassy Kyiv, Ukraine (January 12, 2022) Location:  Ukraine  Event: The Department of State continues to advise U.S. citizens to reconsider travel to Ukraine due to increased threats from Russia.  Concerning reports of further unusual Russian military activity near Ukraine’s borders and in occupied Crimea continue, and U.S. citizens are reminded the security conditions may change …

With US Away, China Gets Friendly with Afghanistan’s Taliban Asim Kashgarian VOA It’s approaching six months since the Taliban took over the Afghan capital, Kabul, on August 15. And in the months since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, neighboring China has taken a keen interest in the fate of the …

In 1949, there were 12 founding members of the Alliance: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States. Turkey and Greece joined in 1952. Germany joined in 1955. Gradually the alliance grew to 30 members with 15 other countries designated …

Man Who Sold Pistol Used in Synagogue Hostage Crisis Federally Charged  The man who sold Malik Faisal Akram the gun he used to kidnap hostages in a Texas synagogue earlier this month has been charged with a federal firearm crime, announced United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas …

The Army’s Guerrilla Operations in North Korea By Dr. Michael E. Krivdo, USARPAC Command Historian Seventy-one years ago, on 25 January 1951, the American Far East Command (FEC) established its first forward base for conducting guerrilla warfare in North Korea. When the U.S. Eighth Army retreated from North Korea in late …

How could U.S. Diplomats stoop so low? Jan 25, 2021 Update. Judicial Watch: Records Confirm Chinese Government ‘Anal Swab’ COVID Testing of U.S. Diplomatic Personnel JUDICIAL WATCH Judicial Watch announced today that it received 11 pages of records from the U.S. Department of State revealing that U.S. diplomatic officials in China objected …

Austin Places 8,500 Troops on Heightened Readiness to Deploy to Europe JAN. 24, 2022 | BY JIM GARAMONE , DOD NEWS Biden: THE PRESIDENT:  You know, I’ll be completely honest with you: It’s a little bit like reading tea leaves.  Ordinarily, if it were a different leader — the fact …

SDF Prison Break SDF reporting: forces continue to sweep the prison and the surrounding area. Locating those who attacked and continued to try and support the #Daesh operation inside the #alHassaka prison. During the battle, 8 Daesh were killed while one member of the SDF lost his life. During the …