(The Associated Press) Ukraine gathered its dead and collected evidence of Russian atrocities on the ruined outskirts of Kyiv, as the two sides geared up Wednesday for what could become a climactic battle by Moscow’s forces to seize the country’s industrial east. Read More |
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(Air Force Times) Four airmen have earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for evacuating the first noncombatants out of Kabul’s airport as Afghanistan fell under Taliban control again last summer. Read More |
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(Task & Purpose) The battalion commander and command sergeant major for 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment have been relieved of command following an investigation, Marine Corps officials said. Read More |
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(Stars & Stripes) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday ordered the state’s National Guard to begin building mass detention areas along the border with Mexico and form boat blockades in the Rio Grande out of concern that changing federal policies will increase illegal crossings into Texas. Read More |
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(Military.com) Military bases in remote locations outside the contiguous United States have seen a slightly higher proportion of suicide attempts than bases on the mainland but lower rates of suicide deaths, a government watchdog said Wednesday. Read More |
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(Military Times) Service members and their families, especially younger troops, are eligible for new or expanded tax credits, perhaps putting more cash in their pockets. Read More |
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(Military Times) The new Military Times column on military family life. Read More |
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(CNN) Safi Rauf, an Afghan American naval reservist who was recently released from captivity under the Taliban, recounted his detainment on Wednesday and what it's like to finally return home. Read More |
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(Al Jazeera) Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says the sooner Kyiv receives additional arms ‘the more lives will be saved’. Russia’s defence ministry says its forces destroyed four fuel storage facilities in the Ukrainian cities of Mykolayiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Chuhuiv overnight. Read More |
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(Washington Post) U.S. and European officials believe Moscow is preparing to concentrate its invading forces in the eastern part of Ukraine. Read More |
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(C4ISRNET) Since before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, space imagery, remote sensing and communications satellites have been informing the public and helping keep Ukrainian forces and civilians connected. Read More |
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(Washington Post) Ukrainian officials called Wednesday for evacuations in three provinces near the Russian border amid new signs that President Vladimir Putin’s troops are escalating their assault on eastern and southern cities following a failed attempt to take the country’s capital. Read More |
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(Defense News) The U.S. has approved another $100 million in Javelin anti-tank weapons and training for Ukraine from U.S. military stocks, for a total of $1.7 billion in U.S. aid committed since Russia’s invasion. Read More |
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(Reuters) According to Der Spiegel, the radio messages corresponded with known deaths. In one intercept, a soldier discusses shooting someone off their bicycle. A body was photographed lying next to a bicycle. Read More |
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(New York Times) Central European members like Poland and the Baltic states want a total break with Moscow and an effort to bring Russia to its knees, two senior Western officials said. Countries like France, Germany and Turkey want to keep contacts with Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, regardless of the allegations of war crimes committed by his troops, the officials said. Read More |
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(Business Insider) The video was verified by The Times, however, the outlet decided not to publish it due to its graphic nature. Per The Times it shows a Ukrainian soldier shooting a Russian soldier three times while another man says "he's still alive. Film these marauders. Look, he's still alive. He's gasping." Read More |
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(Washington Post) The move was part of a series of Justice Department actions against Russia announced on Wednesday. Read More |
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(BBC) According to the affidavit filed on Wednesday by federal prosecutors, Mr Taherzadeh and Mr Ali spent thousands of dollars buying four Secret Service agents and one DHS official "rent-free apartments (with a total yearly rent of over $40,000 (£30.578) per apartment), iPhones, surveillance systems, a drone, a flat screen television, a case for storing an assault rifle, a generator, and law enforcement paraphernalia". Read More |
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(New York Times) Several officials on Wednesday said the expulsions were a significant counterintelligence victory that would set back efforts by Russia, but former officials cautioned that Moscow would have other ways to collect information and that the efforts would have little impact on the war in Ukraine. Read More |
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(C4ISRNET) The Department of Defense unveiled a multimillion-dollar 5G challenge this week that it says will promote the growth and adoption of a fifth-generation open ecosystem and related technologies. Read More |
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(Reuters) The United States targeted Russian banks and elites with a new round of sanctions on Wednesday, including banning Americans from investing in Russia, in response to what President Joe Biden condemned as "major war crimes" by Russian forces in Ukraine. Read More |
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(CNN) The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill riot is looking to hold Trump White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino and Trump's onetime trade adviser Peter Navarro in contempt of Congress for their refusal to cooperate with the panel's investigation or appear for their respective scheduled depositions. Read More |
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(Reuters) Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian told reporters that Beijing firmly opposed all forms of official interactions between the United States and Taiwan, and Washington should cancel the trip. Read More |
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(Army Times) The Army still owes soldiers and colleges money, too. Read More |
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(Syracuse.com) An unmanned military drone crash landed Wednesday morning at a Fort Drum airfield in Jefferson County, officials said. Read More |
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(Task & Purpose) Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Davis was not even 10 years old before he could do something that some people twice his age struggle with. He could spot trace, meaning he could watch a sniper fire at a target downrange, follow that bullet through a scope, and determine how far off the shooter was from where they meant to hit. Read More |
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(Navy Times) The aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford has checked off flight deck certification. Read More |
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(The Associated Press) The lawsuit focuses on a state law that allows access to an applicant’s medical records in determining whether someone should be allowed to own a gun. Read More |
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(Stars & Stripes) A Navy sailor is facing charges in Guam Superior Court from an October 2020 shooting at an Agana Heights basketball court, according to court records. Read More |
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(Daily Press) Steering close to a supply ship while at the helm of USS Bulkeley, Seaman Madeline Rice-Demick could feel the suction created when two ships move on parallel tracks, less than 200 feet apart. Read More |
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(USNI News) The Navy’s MQ-25A Stingray unmanned aerial refueling is set to deploy on an aircraft carrier in 2026, a service official said on Tuesday. Read More |
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(Defense News) The U.S. Marine Corps is on its way to declaring initial operational capability for its CH-53K King Stallion heavy lift helicopter this year and moving into full-rate production in 2023, the program manager told reporters April 5. Read More |
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(Stars & Stripes) A former Marine sergeant with two combat tours in Afghanistan must serve 28 years in prison for molesting a 3-year-old child, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release Monday. Read More |
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(Springfield News Sun) The Air Force has identified the next commander of Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC), headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — and that officer was ordered last year to be part of a jury in the historic court-martial of a two-star general, a former commander of another key Wright-Patterson mission. Read More |
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(WEAR-TV) A U.S. Air Force technical sergeant stationed at Eglin Air Force Base will have his paint scheme design featured on a NASCAR car. Read More |
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(Air Force Magazine) The Space Force’s service dress uniform proved to be a hit with Guardians—not to mention “off the charts” with younger Guardians—said Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond, and the service has “slapped the table on the final design.” Read More |
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(Air Force Times) Six current and future Space Force bases are in the running to be the home of its new Space Training and Readiness Command and subordinate units. Read More |
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(Honolulu Star Advertiser) The U.S. Coast Guard and the Hawaii Police Department are investigating a fatal boating incident that took place at near the Honokohau Marina. Read More |
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(Military Times) Veterans Affairs officials expect calls to the Veterans Crisis Line to increase by as much as 150% after a new three-digit dialing code for suicide prevention services starts operating this July. Read More |
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(Military.com) A program that put iPads in the hands of veterans with mental health conditions at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in increased therapy sessions and reduced suicidal behaviors, according to a new study. Read More |
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(Military Times) A top Pentagon official has quashed the idea of consolidating the military commissary and exchange systems, nearly two years after her predecessor ordered the merger to move forward. Read More |
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(Military Times) Combat Flip Flops released a limited-run, camoflage high-top shoe that no one saw coming. Read More |
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(Military Times) A Marine Corps veteran running as a Republican for an Ohio seat in the U.S. Senate has fielded all manner of strange campaign tactics, but his latest ad left online viewers scratching their heads. Read More |
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(Stars & Stripes) John Travolta is in England making a film about a pilot trying to reach RAF Lakenheath, which along with other nearby bases is home to thousands of U.S. Air Force personnel. Read More |
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(Defense News Weekly) How do you protect your base from a drone swarm? Take inspiration from the God of Thunder and zap them en masse. Read More |
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(C4ISRNET) A newly announced contract between United Launch Alliance and Amazon could have implications for the next phase of the Space Force’s National Security Space Launch competition. Read More |
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(Defense News) The German Air Force is looking to the Israeli Arrow-3 system to quickly field a defensive weapon against Russian Iskander and other missiles, according to a service spokesman. Read More |
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(Defense News) NATO is set to establish a new trans-Atlantic initiative meant to speed up the development of critical technologies, with one Euro-centric headquarters stationed in London and more than 60 partner sites around its alliance. Read More |
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(Defense News) Textron Systems has its Aerosonde Small Unmanned Aircraft System deployed on one U.S. Navy destroyer in the Pacific and will be operating on a second by the end of the year, a company official told Defense News. Read More |
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(CBS News) Six weeks into the invasion of Ukraine, wounded Ukrainian soldiers describe what they call a "savage war." Read More |
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(Al Jazeera) The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) is set to vote on a United States-initiated resolution to suspend Russia from the organisation’s leading human rights body over allegations that its soldiers killed civilians while retreating from the region around Ukraine’s capital. Read More |
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(New York Times) As Russian deaths increase, some are expressing anger at the Kremlin while others are parroting the state’s messaging that blames “Nazis’’ in Ukraine. Read More |
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(Reuters) Hungary received the first shipment of nuclear fuel for its Paks nuclear plant from Russia by air on Wednesday, after the war in Ukraine made shipping by rail impossible, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Thursday. Read More |
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(Reuters) Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman is charged with overseeing thousands of pro-government Janjaweed fighters during the peak of fightingfrom 2003-2004 and being responsible for atrocities including murder, rape, pillaging and torture. Read More |
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(Al Jazeera) Yemen’s president says he has sacked his deputy and transferred his own powers to a presidential council, as Saudi Arabia announced billions of dollars in aid and urged him to begin talks with the Houthis to end the country’s devastating war. Read More |
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(Reuters) Despite high temperatures, tear gas, and a Ramadan fast, tens of thousands of Sudanese protesters marched in the capital Khartoum and more in towns across the country on Wednesday, marking the third anniversary of the fall of former President Omar al-Bashir and rejecting the recent power grab by the generals that ousted him. Read More |
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(The Guardian) Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaoré has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara, concluding a landmark trial and a decades-long quest for justice. Read More |
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(Washington Post) Cuban migrants are coming to the United States in the highest numbers since the 1980 Mariel boatlift, making their way across the U.S. southern land border. Read More |
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(Reuters) Fourteen sketches smuggled out of Myanmar's Insein Prison and interviews with eight former prisoners offer a rare glimpse inside the country's most notorious jail, where thousands of political prisoners have been sent since last year's military coup and communication with the outside world is sharply limited. Read More |
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(The Guardian) Suspected Russian mercenaries participated in an operation with Mali’s army in March in which about 300 civilian men were allegedly killed over five days, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. Read More |
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(Reuters) Colombia's Supreme Court of Justice on Wednesday approved the extradition to the United States of accused drug kingpin and Clan del Golfo crime gang leader Dairo Antonio Usaga, known as Otoniel. Read More |
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(Military Times) Author and military spouse Stacey Morgan shares the story of her husband's journey to space and how it changed her life on Earth on The Spouse Angle podcast. Read More |
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(Military Times) Madeleine Albright was the first woman to hold the position of U.S. Secretary of State. Read More |
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(The War Horse) We began to hope that Bashir was the first of many young Afghans to see the benefits of supporting the coalition and the Afghan government by extension. Read More |
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(Defense One) Strained analogies do nothing but mislead us about what comes next. Read More |
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(Al Jazeera) As Russia flounders on the battlefields of Ukraine, the once-unthinkable possibility of nuclear weapons use is now on the rise, as President Vladimir Putin’s options for victory narrow. Tactical nuclear weapons have not been part of strategic thinking since the end of the Cold War in 1991. What are these weapons and what would be the significance of their use? Read More |
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(Washington Post) Efforts to depose Putin would require either active or passive support from three key organizations — the military, the FSB (successor to the KGB) and the National Guard (“Rosgvardiya”). Putin has firm allies in place in all of these institutions. Read More |
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