An ISIS assassination cell leader was killed in a foray that was separate from a recent helicopter raid that killed Senior ISIS leader Hamza al-Homsi in Syria, according to the U.S. military. Officials from U.S. Central Command announced the development on Twitter, in an update about the raid on al-Homsi. …
Read More »New Al-Qaida Chief Has $10 Mill Bounty on His Head – And is Based in Iran
The new leader of al-Qaida is a combat-experienced former Egyptian special forces officer with a $10 million bounty on his head in connection with terrorist acts that killed Americans and others, the United Nations announced this week. More than six months after the United States killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri …
Read More »Dark, Intense, Mesmerizing: ‘Invader Girl’ Portrays Emotions of GWOT Veterans on Canvas
by Heath Hansen Editor’s note: Soldier of Fortune correspondent Heath Hansen recently came across an artist who creates visceral, dark, and mesmerizing military themed works that he says “do a fantastic job capturing the deepest emotions of the GWOT veteran.” Hansen contacted the artist, Invader Girl, and sends the following …
Read More »Health Officials Hold Urgent Meeting to Address Deadly Marburg Virus Outbreak
Equatorial Guinea announced its first outbreak of the Marburg virus, a deadly and highly infectious disease similar to Ebola, the World Health Organization said. World health officials on Tuesday convened an urgent meeting to address the Marburg outbreak. The small central African nation of about 1.6 million people reported nine …
Read More »Soldier of Fortune Advisory Committee: Meet ‘Black Hawk Down’ Badass Norm Hooten
by Susan Katz Keating Today marks the fourth installment of a new development at Soldier of Fortune: the SOF Advisory Committee. The members are people I trust and admire, and who I have known over the years. They all are veterans who have made significant marks in the military milieu. …
Read More »Wagner’s Prigozhin Predicts Indefinite War in Ukraine
Russia’s war against Ukraine could continue indefinitely, according to Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of Russia’s paramilitary Wagner Group. Russian forces could take two years to capture the Donbas heartland, and would likely spend another three years taking control of wider territories east of the Dnieper River. Prigozhin made his comments …
Read More »New ‘UFO’ Sightings the Result of Switching Off Radar Filter That Created ‘Domain Awareness Gap’
by Susan Katz Keating The “domain awareness gap” that caused American air defenses to miss the original Chinese spy balloon may have been an automated filtering program that now has been shut off, resulting in a flurry of “UFO” discoveries, security sources said. “We’re not filtering out slow moving objects …
Read More »Objects Shot Down Over Canada and Alaska Were Balloons, US Officials Say
Two objects that were shot down over North America were surveillance balloons, U.S. officials said. American fighter jets shot down the objects Friday and Saturday over Canada and Alaska. The balloons are believed to be part of a robust surveillance program by the Peoples Republic of China, a security source …
Read More »Breaking the Ice, Coast Guard Style: ‘Polar Star’ Forges the Frozen Waters of Antarctica
MCMURDO STATION, Antarctica — The cracking and breaking of ice on a metal hull can be heard from land as the heavy icebreaker U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB 10) enters the harbor of McMurdo Station, Antarctica to move the ice pier out of the way for an incoming …
Read More »Trudeau Orders Shoot-Down of High Altitude Object Over Canada
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered a high altitude object to be shot down over Canadian airspace on Saturday, he wrote in a tweet. “I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace. @NORADCommand shot down the object over the Yukon. Canadian and U.S. aircraft were …
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