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Widow of IS leader reveals details of their life together
BBC via AOL· 5 days agoAt that time, she says he started to wear Afghani dress, grew a beard, and carried a pistol. As the...
Capturing a ‘Mosaic of Shifting Battle Fronts’ in Sudan
New York Times· 18 hours agoDeclan Walsh, the chief Africa correspondent for The Times, reported from a country where few...
Iraqi forces kill senior Islamic State leader in a raid in Syria
Reuters via AOL· 3 days agoAbu Zainab, an Iraqi national, was killed in the Syrian city of Raqqa "during the past days" in cooperation with U.S.-led coalition forces, it said in a ...
Legacy of America’s past battles looms over Israel-Gaza crisis
Stars and Stripes· 7 days agoMilitary commanders saw the shift as a turning point, one that led to the liberation of the Islamic...
The US military's confidence in smart bombs may have a fatal flaw
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 7 days agoFox points to the extensive use of American PGMs during the ferocious battles of Raqqa and Mosul in...
Intelligence: Looking For Nuggets In The Rubble
Strategy Page· 4 days agoMosul was lost in July and dead bodies, and talkative survivors are still being found in the city. A month later the smaller city of Tal Afar, between Mosul ...
Artillery: Bigger Is Better If Your Aim Is True
Strategy Page· 6 days agoJanuary 24, 2021: At the end of 2020 the U.S. Army ERCA (Extended Range Cannon Artillery) finally achieved a decade old goal of using a longer barrel cannon firing an extended range Excalibur ...
Syria: Game Of Unknowns
Strategy Page· 5 days agoJanuary 9, 2018: In the south (Damascus) Syria claims that Israeli aircraft and missiles hit a missile warehouse outside Damascus. Syria claim they shot down one of the missiles and damaged ...