Military

  by Jennifer Cruz From heartwarming homecoming videos to personal vlogs about their service experiences, veterans turn to YouTube to help share their stories and form community. Thanks to their videos, we’ve been able to learn about some of...

On this 10th day of November in 1964, at a news conference, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara says that the United States has no plans to send combat troops into Vietnam. When asked whether the United States intended to increase...

…from SouthFront On November 8, pro-government forces successfully advanced northeast of the T2 pumping station, liberated Ratka oil field, Suwayyah, al-Hiri, Huwayjat Baghuz and entered the city of al-Bukamal at the Syrian-Iraqi border. The Syrian Arab Army (SAA), the National Defense...

The Syrian Army and its allies have captured the last major stronghold of Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL), according to RT Arabic. Iraqi mobilization units also reportedly took part in the operation, local media reports. Syrian government forces have captured...

An old witticism going around the Soviet Union about truth (Pravda) in its final days went something like this: In the United States they tell you everything but you know nothing, in the USSR they tell you nothing but...

Anyone reading my column today, needs to think back to 1998 and how nice a world we lived in when the only thing we had to worry about was Regionalization on the military installations in the United States of...

…from SouthFront The self-proclaimed caliphate of ISIS has suffered a double blow in Syria and Iraq. While US-backed forces were democratically negotiating with ISIS-linked Arab tribes in the Omar oil fields and nearby areas, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) Tiger...

…from SouthFront The ISIS-held area is rapidly shrinking in the city of Deir Ezzor. On November 1, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) Tiger Forces and the Republican Guard liberated Jubaliyah neighborhood, the central park area, the school of law and...

  Investigation of Alleged Chemical Weapons Use in Syria’s Idlib Province The Russian Defense Ministry, Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Industry and Trade have presented their own report on chemical attacks in Syria in the wake of a UN-OPCW document, which...

Russian strategic Tu-22M3 bombers, which were covered by Su-30SM fighters deployed at the Hmeymim airbase in Latakia, have launched an airstrike on Daesh targets in Syria, according to the Defense Ministry’s statement. “Six long-range Tu-22M3 bombers took off from the territory of Russia that flew over the territory of Iran...