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North Korean State Media Quickly Censors Its Own Photos

By Kevin O'Connell | 02/15/2025 | Comments Off on North Korean State Media Quickly Censors Its Own Photos

A before and after image from the same PRK state media article reporting on the contents of a balloon launched…

Arabic-Language Media Divided on Hezbollah’s Future

By Kevin O'Connell | 02/15/2025 | Comments Off on Arabic-Language Media Divided on Hezbollah’s Future

Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah during a discussion with officials from supreme leader of Iran Ali Khamenei’s office, circa 2019.…

Nigerian Senator Proposes Employment of Private Military Companies Against Boko Haram

By Kevin O'Connell | 02/15/2025 | Comments Off on Nigerian Senator Proposes Employment of Private Military Companies Against Boko Haram

Despite being pushed from its core territories in northeastern Nigeria in 2015 by the Nigerian and neighboring armies and South…

Chadian President Threatens Withdrawal From Multinational Joint Task Force

By Kevin O'Connell | 02/15/2025 | Comments Off on Chadian President Threatens Withdrawal From Multinational Joint Task Force

Chadian president Mahamat Idris Deby Itno is threatening to withdraw from the MNJTF and conduct counter-terrorism operations against Boko Haram…

Taiwan’s Plan To Deter China With Submarines Faces Scrutiny

By Kevin O'Connell | 01/22/2025 | Comments Off on Taiwan’s Plan To Deter China With Submarines Faces Scrutiny

Launch Ceremony of the ROCS Hai Kun, 28 September 2023. The Hai Kun is Taiwan’s first and only submarine and…

China To Cement Strategic Relationship With Peru

By Kevin O'Connell | 01/22/2025 | Comments Off on China To Cement Strategic Relationship With Peru

The site of the Chancay Port before China’s megaport project; Chancay is a small fishing hamlet north of Lima, Peru.…

Russia Continues To Adapt Training, Incorporating Lessons From Ukraine

By Kevin O'Connell | 01/22/2025 | Comments Off on Russia Continues To Adapt Training, Incorporating Lessons From Ukraine

Russian soldiers training ostensibly using revised tactics, lessons learned during its operations in Ukraine. “The special military operation is the…

Russia Pledges To Boost Support Abroad and Criminalize Russophobia

By Kevin O'Connell | 01/22/2025 | Comments Off on Russia Pledges To Boost Support Abroad and Criminalize Russophobia

An antiwar protest in central London on 12 March 2022. “They need to provide all kinds of assistance and even…

Gabon Shadow Tanker Fleet Transports Sanctioned Russian Oil

By Kevin O'Connell | 01/22/2025 | Comments Off on Gabon Shadow Tanker Fleet Transports Sanctioned Russian Oil

Russia’s Sakhalin-1 oil project, one of many Russian oil facilities in the Arctic, extracts oil that is moved to international…

Russia Accused of Interference in Moldovan and Georgian Elections

By Kevin O'Connell | 01/22/2025 | Comments Off on Russia Accused of Interference in Moldovan and Georgian Elections

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has called for protests in response to what she and opposition parties have claimed is Russian…