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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 …

by Owen Thorne Spending the better part of five months on the ground in Ukraine, beginning with the siege of Kyiv and then on to most of the major battlefields, has built a strong bond with the Ukrainian patriots fighting there.  On those battlefields I observed not only the maelstrom of …

by Hollie McKay Editor’s note: Journalist Hollie McKay and photographer Jake Simkin were inside Afghanistan in August 2021. They documented the fast-moving events of the day, and were caught inside the country when the Taliban came to power. This is an excerpt from their forthcoming book, Afghanistan: The End of the …

By Liam Collins and John Spencer Editor’s note: Authors Liam Collins and John Spencer are U.S. Army veterans and urban warfare experts. Collins is a retired Special Forces colonel, and won the Best Ranger competition in 2007. Spencer is a former Ranger Instructor who served 25 years as an Infantryman (you …

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 …

Russia has begun using a makeshift ferry crossing to move military equipment across the Dnieper River to supply forces holding the occupied Ukrainian city of Kherson as Kyiv’s forces press forward, an examination of satellite imagery by Schemes shows. The crossing first appeared in images taken on August 1 by the private …

Several Haqqani leaders have left Kabul for hideouts in southwestern Afghanistan since the assassination of al-Zawahiri, according to a former director of Afghanistan’s spy agency. Sirajuddin Haqqani has not responded to allegations that al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri lived under his protection in Kabul, and has not appeared in public since …

by Heath Hansen I loaded my pistol, ammunition, and gun belt into the trunk of my car and headed out. I was on my way to a gun club in San Diego County, to put a few rounds down range. As I headed East, I looked out across Lower Otay Lake; …

The United States conducted a rare counterterrorism operation over the weekend against a “significant” al-Qaida target in Afghanistan, a senior U.S. official said Monday.  “The operation was successful and there were no civilian casualties,” the official said without giving further details.  Sources said the strike killed top al-Qaida leader Ayman …

by Colin E. Kimball The call came early and unexpectedly on a Monday Morning. The multi-year-long effort to create a national funeral for the man who had been the last living Medal of Honor recipient of World War II, Gunner Hershel “Woody” Williams, had finally come to fruition. I got …