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Pulling the Trigger in Vietnam: A Veteran Confronts His Personal Archive
Charlie Haughey walked into a war with a rifle and a camera. → Read More
Watch the Ridiculous Trailer for 'Range 15,' Starring America's Greatest War Heroes
A crew of decorated combat veterans have made the most twisted zombie film of all time. → Read More
British Special Forces Sniper Annihilates ISIS Suicide Squad
A British Army sniper with the elite Special Air Service (SAS) killed five ISIS suicide bombers--and he only needed three bullets to do it, the Express reports. → Read More
Watch a Massive Brawl Erupt in Ukraine's Parliament
A royal rumble erupted in Ukraine's parliament after a lawmaker handed Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk a bouquet of roses and then attempted to carry him away from the podium during a speech on Friday. All hell broke loose when the prime minister's allies rushed in to his rescue. → Read More
A Former Guantanamo Detainee Is Now the Head of an al-Qaeda Branch
A former Guantanamo Bay detainee has just resurfaced in a propaganda video released by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a branch of the infamous terror network. The man is Ibrahim Qoosi, a career jihadist who once served on Osama bin Laden's elite security detail. Qoosi had spent nearly a decade in Guantanamo Bay by the time he was transferred to his native Sudan in 2012. Two years… → Read More
Chris Kyle's Bad Ass Widow Clowns NRA Marksman, Wins Elite Shooting Competition
Taya Kyle, the widow of legendary Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, beat NRA World Shooting Champion Bruce Piatt to win the the Inaugural American Sniper Shootout in Mason, Texas. But Kyle, who admits to being a novice shooter, had some high-tech help: TrackingPoint, a special target-assisted system that allows shooters to use computers inside the weapon to calculate the best firing solution based on… → Read More
The Real Story Of Accused Deserter Bowe Bergdahl's Disappearance
On a June morning in 2009, an infantry platoon with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division realized that one of its soldiers was missing from their small combat outpost in Paktika, Afghanistan. The soldier's name was Bowe Bergdahl, and the discovery quickly set off a sweeping rescue operation that ultimately cost the lives of several U.S. military personnel. → Read More
Former U.S. Drone Operators Explain What It's Like to Rain Down Death From Above
As commander-in-chief, President Obama has relied heavily on targeted killings by drones to combat terrorism around the globe. To date, thousands of militants and hundreds of civilians have been killed by U.S. drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia on his watch. → Read More
The Pentagon May Send U.S. Troops to Take Back One of ISIS's Biggest Strongholds
Before it was an ISIS stronghold, the city of Ramadi was one of the fiercest battlegrounds of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Now, Defense Secretary Ash Carter is considering sending American helicopters and troops back there to help Iraqi military forces retake the city from the Islamic State. → Read More
Navy Admiral Punished for Booze-Fueled Naked Hotel Escapade
The Navy announced on Monday that Rear Adm. David F. Baucom has been removed from his post as the director of strategy and policy at the U.S. Transportation Command for a series of alcohol-fueled shenanigans at an upscale Florida beach resort in April. It began, as most regrettable nights do, with a combination of wine, whiskey and gin. According to an investigative report by the Naval Inspector… → Read More
Anonymous Has Declared This Friday 'ISIS Trolling Day'
Anonymous is proving relentless in its quest to fuck with the Islamic State. On Monday, the hacker collective announced that this Friday (Dec 11.) is officially "ISIS trolling day" for everyone on the internet. → Read More
Turkey Just Deployed a Battalion of Troops to Iraq
The Iraqi government says that a battalion of Turkish soldiers that arrived in northern Iraq in a convoy of tanks and armored personnel carriers last week did so without its permission, and has given Turkey 48 hours to withdraw, Reuters reports. → Read More
It's Official: The U.S. Has Killed the Top ISIS Leader in Libya
The Pentagon confirmed on Monday that Abu Nabil, the Islamic State's senior leader in Libya, was pulverized by an F-15 during a U.S. airstrike last month. The strike, which was carried out Nov. 13, marked the first time the U.S. had directly targeted members of ISIS outside of Iraq and Syria. And it probably won't be the last, as ISIS has been expanding its operations in war-torn Libya , where… → Read More
UK Finally Joins Fight Against ISIS
The Bomb ISIS party has officially begun and everyone is eager to get in some licks. On Wednesday, the British parliament authorized airstrikes against the Islamic State, and within hours RAF Tornado jets were dropping high precision Paveway bombs on ISIS-controlled oil fields in eastern Syria. → Read More
The Pentagon Is Sending the World's Most Elite Soldiers to Wipe ISIS Off the Face of the Earth
The U.S. military is sending the same elite soldiers responsible for the death of Osama bin Laden to vanquish ISIS in the aftermath of the Paris terror attacks. → Read More
People Are Trolling ISIS By Photoshopping Their Fighters as Ducks
We've all heard the saying: If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's probably wearing a suicide vest. No? Well, maybe it doesn't go exactly like that. But it could now, thanks to members of the online image-based bulletin board 4Chan, who've been trolling the terrorist group by superimposing rubber duck heads on to images of ISIS fighters. → Read More
Kim Jong-un's Terrible Haircut Is Now the Law in North Korea
Take a moment to really look at Kim Jong-un, the baby-faced "Supreme Leader" of North Korea. Behold his face: so smooth and gelatinous he could win a twerking competition with those cheeks alone. And that mouth: like a dollop of strawberry jam on a cheesecake. But topping off that ridiculous dome of his is that haircut: a weird trapezoidal 'do only a dictator would find stylish. → Read More
To Hell and Back: The Untold Story of the Real Heroes of Benghazi
The plan was to make jack-o’-lanterns. John Tiegen and Mark Geist have brought their families out here, to the scraggly wilds of Tiegen’s 40-acre Colorado property, so the kids can carve pumpkins while the men hunt small game. But the guns prove more appealing to everyone, so the plans converge. “Cover your ears, guys,” Tiegen says as he slaps a 14-round magazine into his NEMO Watchman, the… → Read More
The Pentagon Is Gearing Up For a Ground War Against ISIS
Do you remember when President Obama said, "I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria"? It was September 2013, and the commander-in-chief was attempting to pacify fears that our country was getting sucked into another ground war in the Middle East as he considered launching targeted strikes against the Assad regime for its use of chemical weapons. → Read More
Is Russia Actually Helping the West Fight ISIS?
When the Russian bombing campaign in Syria began in late September, Vladimir Putin claimed it was to eliminate ISIS. But it soon became apparent that destroying the caliphate was secondary to Putin's mission to bolster President Bashar al-Assad's forces in their fight against anti-government rebels. Now, figures just released by the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights seem to confirm… → Read More