Special Finds

A 25-year-old British man was found barefooted and tied in the room of a home where he had been held captive for eight days by Italian police. The guy from London, whose name has not been disclosed, was on...

Combat divers from the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) excel at remaining unnoticed, unknown, and unsuspected during maritime missions. The 10th SFG's dive squad recently completed three weeks of intense maritime and dive requalification training in the cold waters and...

A French counterterrorism operation in northern Mali killed the head of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) in August, retaliating for the deaths of four American soldiers in Niger in 2017. In September, French President Emanuel Macron...

With the Taliban in power once again in Afghanistan, a new foe is on the rise. Islamic State is threatening to usher in a new period of violence. With US forces and the former Afghan government gone, the erstwhile...

By the end of the year, French army bases at Kidal, Tessalit, and Timbuktu in northern Mali will be closed and handed over to the Malian army. While air support will continue to be provided, the 5,000 French troops...

Officials from the United States Navy are already preparing the foundations for the next era of nuclear-powered attack submarines, drawing on the present fleet to create a terrifying new vessel. The new submarine is designated SSN(X), indicating that the...

The Air Force is collaborating with the Army to deliver data acquired by F-35 fighter jets at "machine speed" to ground-based Special Operations Forces (SOF), Marines, and Infantry. It intends to accomplish this by utilizing important emerging technologies that...

Judy Trinh of the CBC reported last month on ex-special forces David Lavery's efforts to evacuate scores of individuals from Kabul before the Taliban took control. Lavery was a founding member of Joint Task Force 2, an elite branch of Canada's armed forces...

In August, when the US began its final departure from Afghanistan, European news sources and several social media sites reported that allies worked together to remove soldiers. However, Chinese media twisted the facts and presented a different version to...

In Afghanistan, the Taliban and the Islamic State-Khorasan Province are waging a deadly war for supremacy. In Pakistan, the situation is a little hazier. According to data produced by the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS), an Islamabad-based research...