Targeted attacks against pro-Russian officials in Kherson and other occupied areas have gone up in recent weeks, according to sources inside Ukraine. “This will come into play in occupied Kherson, where collaborators are well known,” said Max, a taxi driver who uses only his given name. “They should beware.” The …
Read More »Russian Pilot Says ‘F*cked Up’ Air Force Should Ground Itself From War in Ukraine
by Susan Katz Keating Leo can’t stop watching the video. The former Russian fighter pilot takes an indoor break from the Reno Air Races – “the smoke is too much; the wildfires” – and offers Soldier of Fortune his theories on why the Russian Air Force is largely missing from …
Read More »This Credit Card Company Rejects New System That Paves the Way to a Back-Door Gun Registry
While critics warn that a new credit card merchant code could serve as a back-door way to form a national gun registry, at least one credit card company, Visa, has vowed to reject the system. “Visa is firmly against this,” the company wrote in a statement. The Geneva-based International Organization …
Read More »Former Green Beret and NFL Player Nate Boyer Talks to Soldier of Fortune About Directing His New Movie
by Susan Katz Keating Nate Boyer served six tours of duty as a Green Beret in Iraq and Afghanistan, and later became a long snapper for the Seattle Seahawks. But one of the hardest things he has done is making sure he does right by the people who are portrayed …
Read More »‘They Have a List’: Taliban Search House-to-House For Resistance Fighters in Panjshir
by Susan Katz Keating Taliban forces in the past few days searched house-to-house in Afghanistan’s Panjshir province, hunting for opposition fighters, men inside the area said. The targeted fighters belong to the National Resistance Front (NRF), which regards the Taliban as a tyrannical “criminal group” that is “fundamentally alien” to Islamic …
Read More »Remembering September 11, 2001
On the anniversary of that day when the world turned upside down… We here at Soldier of Fortune remember what it was like to be secure – and to have that peace disrupted. We are proud of how America rallied to fight back against evil. So many of you here …
Read More »Anti-Taliban Resistance Forces Vow to Keep Fighting in Afghanistan
by Susan Katz Keating Anti-Taliban fronts are spreading beyond Panjshir and into other areas of Afghanistan, even as the Taliban pledged to shut down the resistance entirely by early September, opposition fighters said. “The front is expanding,” one resistance fighter told Soldier of Fortune from inside Afghanistan. “We will not …
Read More »Iran Foiled Again While Trying to Steal More US Navy Sea Drones
The United States Navy again thwarted Iran from stealing military sail drones at sea, officials said. The incident in the Red Sea, after an earlier one in the Gulf, was the latest reminder of U.S.-Iran military tensions. They follow exchanges of fire last week between U.S. troops and Iran-backed groups …
Read More »Merrick Garland’s Mar-a-Lago Warrant: Will Obscure Section of US Code Come Into Play?
The firestorm surrounding the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound continued into Friday, following a newspaper report that federal agents had searched the property for documents concerning nuclear weapons. In addition to sending shockwaves through an already reeling political world, the report prompted questions from those who …
Read More »Did FBI Avert Unprecedented Faceoff With Secret Service at Mar-a-Lago, and Other Questions
by Susan Katz Keating The FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound has created an unsurprising firestorm, bringing outrage or glee from various opposing camps. So far, the raid has produced only speculation. The warrant that allowed more than 30 federal agents to search the Florida estate on …
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