Rebellions & Insurgencies

Twenty-two years after the US invasion of Panama in 1989 removed him from power (NotiCen, Dec. 22, 1989), former dictator Manuel Noriega (1983-1989) arrived in his home country on Dec. 11. Since 2010,...

HOUSTON -- KBR's (NYSE: KBR) appeal in the Fisher convoy case was granted by a unanimous panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The court ruled that the state tort claims of...

By IsraelNationalNews.com, Ha'aretz & YnetNews.com IDF spokesman Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai wrote on his Facebook page Wednesday that he was glad Iranian nuclear scientist Mustafa Ahmadi Roshn was assassinated. "I do not know...

The loss of one's sense of proportion can be infectious - and thus it is when the commando calls by. Stepping over a swooning healthcare assistant, I find him lounging in the treatment...

Over the years, the sequencing, execution and even the name of the small-unit-tactics, or SUT, phase of the Special Forces Qualification Course, or SFQC, have changed dramatically, but the defining experience of the...

On March 17, 2003, President George W. Bush announced a 48-hour deadline for Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq. On March 19, Soldiers from the 5th Special Forces Group headed over the ber m...

The war in Iraq is over. Afghanistan is on schedule to likely end - finished or not - in 2014, and pundits, politicians and policymakers are getting out their budget- cutting knives as...

The road map to a secure and democratic Iraq is vetted in the United States nationalsecurity interests to establish regional stability throughout the Middle East. These interests are maintained through a strategic goal...

THE INTELIGENCE WARS: LESSONS FROM BAGHDAD DETAILS By Steven K. O'Hern Amherst, N. Y.: Prometheus Books, 2008. ISBN: 978-1-59102-670-9 (hardcover). 277 pages. $30. Reviewed by: Master Sgt. Darrell Utt USAJFKSWCS NCOA "Those who...

More than 10 years ago, Green Berets of the 5th Special Forces Group rode furiously through the mountains of Afghanistan, pursuing those behind the attacks on 9/11. A decade later, special-operations Soldiers, who...

Reintegration is a core element to achieving conflict termination in Afghanistan. During the nascent stages of the Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Program, or APRP, I recognized the great strategic potential reintegration held to...

For the second time in little more than two years, what was once known as Blackwater USA changed its name. The private-security company has had a headline-grabbing history. December 1996 Incorporated by former...

AFGHANISTAN'S Ministrv AFGHANISTAN'S Ministry of Mines launched four tender processes for gold and copper projects with the hope that these projects will boost the contribution that natural resources make to the country's economy....

The hope that peace and reconciliation will prevail in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is what sustains the Banyamulenge people as they recover from the massacre at the village of Gatumba...

The weapons of choice of U.S. enemies, improvised explosive devices, are like deadly viruses that mutate in reaction to vaccines. They cannot be wiped out, only temporarily thwarted. "I liken the IED a...

Core Views The decision on November 23 by Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to sign an agreement to resign is unlikely to bring the nine-month old political conflict in the country to an...

By IsraelNationalNews.com The Obama administration is trying to convince Israel to release arch-terrorist and mass-murderer Marwan Barghouti. According to the Hamas-aligned Al Quds daily, Washington views Barghouti as its preferred candidate for Fatah...

By IsraelNationalNews.com Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Iran's Saudi-led Persian Gulf allies of being American pawns on Wednesday, the Fars news agency reported. "The colonialists are friends of no one, they only friends...

By IsraelNationalNews.com As part of the recent celebration of its 24th anniversary, Hamas held a mass rally in Gaza in which the terror group expressed an intransigent commitment to the jihad against Israel....