Browsing: All news

Iran has issued a dramatic deadline. It wants the U.S. to agree to its demands in the coming days, or risk continued chaos in the Strait of Hormuz.

Mohsen Rezaei, who was last month made secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, says the regime has “given the Americans four to five days to comply with Iran’s conditions.”

PACIFIC OCEAN (Feb. 9, 2012) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) transits the Pacific Ocean. John C. Stennis is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility while on a seven-month deployment. (U.S.

For four and a half years, Russia has waged a full-scale invasion against Ukraine, targeting anything and everything that stands in its way.

The conflict has seldom been confined to the battlefields.

Putin Back in 2020. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Putin in 2019. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Tanks have been targeted as much as trains, and soldiers as much as schools, as Russia depletes its full arsenal to win a war that many initially predicted would last a matter of days.

This form of warfare is nothing new in Moscow’s invasion.

The UK Forward Land Forces in Estonia will shift to lighter and more agile units from April 2027 but few platform changes have been made.

On Jan. 15, 2019, five terrorists from the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab carried out an attack at the DusitD2 complex in Nairobi, Kenya using AK-style rifles, grenades, and a suicide bomb. According to British SAS operator Christian Craighead, who spearheaded the rescue of civilians and counterattack at the complex, that statement alone is against the law in the United Kingdom.
Blocked from publishing his account of the events in his home country, Craighead released “One Man In” in the United States through Threshold Editions and Simon & Schuster Audio on Sept. 15, 2026.

U.S. troops carrying out strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats are facing renewed questions about the legality of their orders after a United Nations expert found the attacks may constitute crimes against humanity.
Ben Saul, the U.N. special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights, examined the U.S. military campaign that has killed 223 people in at least 68 strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific since September 2025.
Saul found there were reasonable grounds to believe the U.S.

When SIG Sauer released the P320 in 2014, it had difficulty breaking into a polymer-frame, striker-fired duty handgun market dominated by the likes of Glock and Smith & Wesson. Following the win of the Modular Handgun System contract with the Army and subsequent adoption by the rest of the U.S. military, P320 sales exploded.
Also Read: The Civilian Marksmanship Program sells M1 Garand rifles, M1911 pistols, and M14s
To complement the full-size, compact, sub-compact, and carry P320 variants, SIG released the micro-compact P365.

In recent weeks and months, Russia and Ukraine have been striking each other’s energy infrastructure, which has affected global energy markets to the point where President Donald Trump has been pushing the two countries to agree to a ceasefire in such attacks.

And now, Russia’s attacks have hit another essential part of Ukraine’s economy.

MSTA-S Russian Army. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Msta-S Russian Army. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Australia has pledged additional support for Ukraine, expanding its military and humanitarian assistance as the war with Russia continues.

The Estonian Defence Forces have signed a three-year agreement with defence-focused investment fund Archangel to connect military requirements with technology companies and investors in Estonia and the wider Baltic region.

The Navy formally established a new center Thursday at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek in Virginia that’s expected to play a major role in shaping how the sea service fights with uncrewed systems.
The Robotic and Autonomous Systems Warfighting Development Center (RASWDC) will bring “operational coherence” that’s needed for the integration of unmanned platforms across the fleet with the Navy’s general-purpose forces, according to an unclassified administrative message from Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle that was posted Thursday on a Navy HR website.