Fighting between Afghan security forces and the Taliban continued to escalate over the weekend, and reportedly, a Taliban offensive is in the works. In a Tuesday tweet, the Afghan Ministry of Defense said that positions across seven provinces had ...
The Department of Defense kicked off the “Defender-Europe 21” training exercise on Monday along with 26 partner nations. According to a Pentagon release, the nearly two-month-long annual training event is expanding this year to include some 28,000 ...
An out-of-control Chinese rocket is expected to reenter the Earth's atmosphere on Saturday. And no one knows where it will land. The Pentagon announced in a statement that it's keeping an eye on a Chinese Long March 5B rocket, which launched a ...
This article was originally published May 4, 2021, on Sandboxx News. Follow Sandboxx News on Instagram. The US Army Recruiting Command will kick off its second National Hiring Days event on May 10th. The concept was born last year as a means of ...
Silhouetted palm trees dotted a creeping sunrise to the east, and a waning moon hung in the black sky above the Pacific Ocean at 5 a.m. Friday morning as 22 current and former Reconnaissance Marines stood on the San Onofre Beach shoreline aboard Camp ...
The spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, the multinational military coalition against the Islamic State Group, tweeted that al-Asad air base in Anbar province, Iraq, was targeted Tuesday by a rocket attack. Col. Wayne Marotto said two Katyusha ...
With India in the throes of the world’s worst COVID-19 outbreak, US Air Force transport aircraft are delivering loads of vital aid. Over the past week, one C-17 Globemaster III and three C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft have embarked for India with ...
This article was originally published May 3, 2021, by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Washington wants a stable relationship with Moscow but that will depend on Kremlin policies and how aggressively it ...
Coffee or Die Magazine won two awards in the 2021 Military Reporters & Editors (MRE) Journalism Contest. Kevin Knodell, formerly an associate editor for Coffee or Die and now a reporter for Honolulu Civil Beat, won in the overseas large ...
Violence flared over the weekend in Afghanistan as the Taliban attacked several coalition positions, including Kandahar Airfield. In a series of tweets, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah seemingly warned of further violence, claiming that the presence of ...
Former and active Rangers are celebrating news that a legendary figure in Ranger lore has been approved for the Medal of Honor. Col. Ralph Puckett was approved Friday for the medal after a years-long campaign of supporters in and out of the Army who ...
The mission to kill Usama Bin Laden concluded 10 years ago today when a team of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) special operators and aviators from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment raided a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. It ...
This article was originally published April 30, 2021, on Sandboxx News. Follow Sandboxx News on Instagram. Recently, the Master Chief of the Navy visited the Naval Special Warfare Command in San Diego and explored how the maritime component of ...
After her brutal murder last year, Spc. Vanessa Guillén’s name became synonymous with both the plague of military sexual harassment and institutional dysfunction at Fort Hood. Now, an internal Army investigation has concluded that Guillén was indeed ...
Standing in the garden of her home on the outskirts of this front-line Ukrainian town, Nastya Troitskaya points over the wall in the direction of the trenches and says: “When the shelling gets really loud, the children always cry. ...
As Chief Warrant Officer A.J. Pasciuti led a patrol of instructors hunting his students in a steep Camp Pendleton valley, his objective was clear: They were going to find these kids, and they were going to kill ’em. Well, that wasn't quite right, ...
This article was originally published April 29, 2021, by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Negotiators in the conflict in eastern Ukraine have failed to agree a truce ahead of Orthodox Easter later this week amid a surge in fighting since the ...
For Jessica Lynch, every waking moment serves as a haunting reminder of all she endured as America’s first prisoner of war in the early days of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. Things that had once been second nature now have to be done methodically ...
On Saturday President Joe Biden became the first US president to officially recognize the massacre of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire as genocide, further complicating relations with Turkey — a NATO ally. “Each year on this day, we remember ...
This article was originally published April 22, 2021, by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. A top U.S. general has expressed concern about the ability of the Afghan security forces to hold territory after the planned withdrawal of all foreign ...
The recruits of Lima Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, woke to pitch black in the chilly, damp air of Camp Pendleton's Edson Range early Thursday morning. Red-lens flashlights held between their teeth ...
This article was originally published April 22, 2021, by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee has unanimously advanced a bill to deliver military assistance to Ukraine, including lethal weapons, to help the ...
"Hit him!" "Strike! Strike!" "Do it again!" Dust billowed up from boots as the recruits pushed and stumbled against each other in the sparring pit, cheered on ruthlessly by their drill instructors. A recruit battered another with his pugil ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia's defense chief announced Thursday that the Kremlin was pulling troops back from its southern borders with Ukraine. The announcement of the drawdown potentially marks a de-escalatory turning point in a crisis that began weeks ...
This article was originally published April 21, 2021, on Sandboxx News. Follow Sandboxx News on Instagram. An Indonesian attack submarine has gone missing during an exercise in the Bali Sea. The KRI Nanggala-402 with 53 souls on board failed ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing challenges on two fronts this week. Protests are planned in 160 cities across Russia Wednesday in support of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Meanwhile, following an ...
In the 1964 Stanley Kubrick film, Dr. Strangelove, which satirized a potential nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, the titular character opined: “Of course, the whole point of the Doomsday machine is lost if you keep it a ...
Following President Joe Biden’s announcement last week that US forces will withdraw from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021, multiple outlets are reporting that both China and Russia may increase their involvement in the country once the last US boot is ...
This article was originally published April 20, 2021, by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan says he will be returning to the United States for consultations this week amid rising tensions between Washington ...
Photos and video leaked in 2020 that purport to show the US Navy capturing multiple “unidentified aerial phenomena” are indeed authentic, according to the Department of Defense. CNN reported Friday that Pentagon spokeswoman Sue Gough confirmed ...
