When Israeli warplanes struck the Abu al-Duhur airbase in Syria on Aug. 18, 2026, the smoke rose over the demolition of an old geopolitical assumption about the Middle East. This time, Israel directly targeted a strategic sphere of influence where the Turkish military had been working to build local security capacity.Turkey rapidly filled the power vacuum in post-Assad Syria, expanding its military and intelligence footprint southward and positioning itself as a founding actor in the Levant’s new security architecture.
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Arms trafficking in the Caribbean has soared in recent years, with many states now ranking firearms trafficking as the number one public safety and security threat. As new methods of arming individuals and gangs emerge across the Caribbean, gun violence continues to rise throughout the region. While armed gangs in Haiti currently possess superior firepower to the police, most countries are trying to get a handle on the problem before it becomes that bad.
Iran Says “Proportionate” Responses to America Are Over – Iran is warning that its approach to the war with the United States has now changed, with one of Tehran’s most senior officials declaring on Sunday, September 6, that the country will no longer limit itself to “proportionate responses” following the latest exchanges of strikes around the Strait of Hormuz.
Dr. Theresa Long, a longtime Army doctor board-certified in aerospace medicine, has been named senior medical military adviser to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to an Aug. 14 deposition obtained by Politico. Long is investigating whether COVID-19 vaccines caused the deaths of over 2,500 U.S. military service members.
A military doctor is investigating whether COVID-19 vaccines caused the deaths of over 2,500 U.S. military service members, Politico reported Thursday.
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Trump Faces Iran Pressure From All Angles – President Donald Trump is facing immense pressure to bring the war with Iran to an end, with criticism rife among his own supporters, polling putting the Republicans behind the Democrats ahead of the November midterms, and criticism from a former senior Pentagon official all hitting headlines in just the last day.
The challenge is simple: There seems to be no end in sight.
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The Air Force said last week that its M18 service pistol is “safe, reliable, and functional” following a review of tens of thousands of the firearms. The findings came as part of the final review in a large-scale inspection of the gun ordered last year after an airman was killed by a bullet fired from a M18.
Last July, Airman Brayden Lovan, 21, with the 90th Security Forces Group was shot and killed at F.E. Warren Air Base. The shooting was initially reported as an accidental discharge.
The U.S. Marine Corps has deployed another squadron of F-35B fifth generation fighters to Japan, reinforcing one of the most strategically important U.S. airpower deployments in the Western Pacific. The South Carolina-based squadron has taken over rotational duties in Japan, replacing an ageing Marine F-18C/D Hornet squadron under the service’s programme for periodically rotating U.S.-based aviation units through the Pacific.
Why Trump Is Threatening Pickaxe Mountain – As the U.S. and Iran exchange fire again, President Trump is threatening to attack one of the few major components of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure that has so far survived the war. On Friday, September 4, Trump said that the United States could make moves to attack the heavily fortified Pickaxe Mountain complex “very soon.”
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said the United States was closely monitoring activity at the site and elsewhere in Iran, declaring that Washington knows “everybody that’s moving at Pickaxe.
USS Princeton (CG 59) transits the Strait of Hormuz. Photo: U.S. Navy / Public Domain
The U.S. military struck three Iranian oil tankers on Saturday after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched ballistic missiles at two American Navy warships patrolling the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Central Command confirmed.
CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper announced that a U.S. aircraft carrier and a missile destroyer “successfully evaded multiple unprovoked Iranian attacks” and that no American personnel were injured.
How the Drone War Is Changing Lives in Ukraine – Russia’s ongoing missile and drone campaigns against Ukraine have killed dozens of people around Kyiv in barely more than a week. The strikes have damaged homes and infrastructure, and what used to be overnight attacks have become prolonged campaigns intended to intimidate the government in Kyiv and generate enough political pressure to push President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to call off his own long-range campaign.