Israel And Turkey End Three-Year Rift After Obama Sets Up Call
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for a 2010 incident that badly damaged relations between the two countries, Reuters reports.In 2010...
View ArticleThe Pentagon Wants To Build A New Prison At Guantanamo Bay
If the shutdown of the office tasked with closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility didn't convince everyone the infamous prison will remain for years to come, then plans for constructing a new...
View ArticleThe Department Of Homeland Security Did A Horrible Job Redacting This No-Bid...
Here's an amusing slip-up by the DHS.They've attempted to redact the estimated cost of a no bid spare parts procurement contract. But as you can see, the marker wasn't quite dark enough.Zooming in on...
View Article23 Examples Of Sleep In A Combat Zone
I'd be lying if I said I never snuggled with a dude.When Marines initially invaded Iraq in 2003, there were no bases or bunks or nice places to sleep. It was the ground, with stars for a blanket.The...
View ArticleUS Company Sells Fashionable Bulletproof Clothing
It's now possible to buy a bulletproof Italian leather jacket.It's more expensive, but the "high fashion" clothing can reportedly resist rounds from a .357 magnum soft point, reports Steve Raabe of the...
View ArticleThis Young Woman Escaped From North Korea And Gave An Incredible TED Talk...
Growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee believed her life — witnessing public executions, studying the history of Kim Il-Sung with vigor — was totally normal.Lee had no idea that people were suffering,...
View ArticleNew North Korean War Propaganda Is A Step Up From Previous Endeavors
North Korea (DPRK) has released a new propaganda video which shows their army bombarding and then invading South Korea.Unlike the previous war propaganda — one which even ripped footage from a popular...
View ArticleNorth Korea Allegedly Forces Diplomats To Deal Drugs For Hard Cash
A North Korean embassy in Eastern Europe received a large batch of illegal drugs from the North Korean government last year, according to reports in South Korean press.The reasoning behind the plan was...
View ArticleWho Won The Iraq War? China
On March 20th, 2003, one day after the United States and a "Coalition of the Willing" began its military assault of Iraq, China's Foreign Ministry released a statement condemning the war."The Chinese...
View ArticleMarine Recruiter Allegedly Used Recruit's Facebook Account To Solicit Nude...
A Milwaukee, Wis.-area Marine Corps recruiter is being charged with using a recruit's Facebook account to solicit nude photos from more than 40 young women, police say.Andrew Curran, a 27-year-old...
View ArticleFighter Pilot's 'Selfie' Video Gives A Killer View Of What It's Like To Take...
The following video is part of a series filmed from the backseat of an F-15D with 44th Fighter Squadron from Kadena airbase, Japan.The footage was shot during Ex. Cope Tiger 13, the annual multilateral...
View ArticleMayor Bloomberg: Security Drones Over New York City Are 'Scary' But Inevitable
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg considers the domestic use of military-style drones "scary" but says that there is no way to stop it.“Everybody wants their privacy, but I don’t know how you’re...
View ArticleBadass Video Shows Kuwait's Female Cops Showing Off Their Crisis Skills
Al Arabiya has published this video showing Kuwaiti female police officers showing off their skills at a police academy’s graduation ceremony on Wednesday.The demonstrations included how they would...
View ArticleCIA Is Feeding Intel To The Friendlier Syrian Rebels To Counter The Jihadists
The CIA is doing more to bolster non-radical Syrian rebels to counter the increasing dominance of jihadist groups, Adam Entous, Siobhan Gorman, and Nour Malas The Wall Street Journal report.The Agency...
View ArticleWhat Boat Captains Bring To Cuba For Protection Since They Can't Bring Their...
There are various underground rules about taking a boat to Cuba, and at the top of that list is to leave firearms behind — that is, if you don't want to get them confiscated by customs officials and...
View ArticleThe Best US Military Pictures Of 2012
For most every success, failure, or accomplishment, loss or impromptu change of plan, in most every clime and place, there are photos ... and photographers, right there in the grit with the grunts,...
View ArticleIsrael's 'Prisoner X' Was Jailed For Exposing Lebanese Informants To Hezbollah
The Australian known as "Prisoner X", who died in an Israeli prison in 2010, had been arrested after a bungled and unauthorised bid to recruit a double agent with links to Lebanon's Hizbollah,...
View ArticleNBC Correspondent Richard Engel Tells Terrifying Story Of Being Kidnapped In...
In December NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and five others were kidnapped in Syria and held for five days by loyalists of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.In the newest issue of Vanity...
View ArticleWithout International Support, Syrian Rebels Are Losing The Cyber War Against...
On Syria’s digital battlefield, hackers loyal to Syrian PresidentBashar al-Assad are defeating the rebels' cyber militias.Just as the Syrian opposition leans on the West to supply weapons and other...
View ArticleProposed Site For New FBI HQ Turns Out To Be A Classified CIA Warehouse
In January 2012 officials from Fairfax County, Va., proposed that the FBI move it's headquarters to "a half-empty warehouse" in the area.The government-owned site, which lies just outside of Washington...
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