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by Steve Gutterman One was a dogged reporter determined to expose corruption, malfeasance, and abuse from the halls of power in Moscow to the killing fields of Chechnya. Another was a fiery politician who led chants at peaceful protests against President Vladimir Putin, election fraud, and Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. …

Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is among those killed in a plane crash from Moscow to St. Petersburg, Russian officials said on Wednesday. Prigozhin’s group launched what appeared to be an aborted coup against president Vladimir Putin in June. A private jet carrying Prigozhin crashed on Wednesday in Russia’s Tver …

by Gene Pugh One of the darkest days in Special Forces history occurred on a summer morning in 1968 in Vietnam. In the early hours of Aug. 23, the Da Nang MACVSOG camp known as FOB4 was attacked by approximately 167 soldiers from the combined units of the 22nd VC …

by Susan Katz Keating Police who raided a small town Kansas newspaper this month were focused more on intimidation than on investigating an alleged crime, the publisher told Soldier of Fortune. “They didn’t really look for what they said they were looking for,” said Eric Meyer, the publisher and editor …

A search warrant that set the stage for the controversial police raid of a Kansas newspaper last Friday was withdrawn on Wednesday and all of the items that were seized will now be returned. The withdrawal comes a few days after the Kansas Bureau of Investigation took over the investigation that led …

by Susan Katz Keating Tehran will have unrestricted control of assets that are being unfrozen as part of a deal to release five American citizens who will remain captive until all assets are released, according to the Foreign Ministry of Iran. “Iran will determine how to use these assets, and …

by Susan Katz Keating The Secret Service told President Joe Biden the name of the person who brought a packet of cocaine into the White House last month, according to three security sources with direct knowledge of the incident.  All three sources independently told Soldier of Fortune the same name, …

by Susan Katz Keating Twelve years ago today, 30 American military servicemen and a U.S. military working dog were killed when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter, call sign Extortion 17, was shot down in Afghanistan. Within hours of this shocking event, I began searching for whatever I could learn, for an …

by Mitch “Taco” Bell Sometimes you never know who your neighbors are and I don’t mean that in the ax murderer scenario way, but in the sense that you have true heros hiding out in plain sight. Take Tommy King, for instance. One weekend we had a giant wind storm and …

The Miami Police Department this week gave a trove of civilian rifles and pistols to Ukraine, after obtaining the weapons during a gun buy-back. The shipment comes in the wake of a move by the city of Phoenix, Arizona, to give confiscated weapons to Ukraine. READ MORE: City of Phoenix …