Ukraine’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant on Fire due to Russian Shelling
3 March 2022 * Updated 4 March 2022, 0736 PST The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest of its kind in Europe and the fifth-largest in the world, is on…
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3 March 2022 * Updated 4 March 2022, 0736 PST The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest of its kind in Europe and the fifth-largest in the world, is on…
26 February 2022 *28 February 2022* Correction: Snake Island defenders are alive but were captured. Article corrected. As I watch Russia invade Ukraine, led by a lunatic, and justified by…
23 February 2022 Russia’s move into Ukraine should be seen as a wider and more nefarious strategy that has been in existence for 15 years – the 2007 Bronze Soldier…
19 November 2021 The attacks perpetrated by the ISIS chapter in Afghanistan, ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K), have been on the rise. The head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Deborah Lyons,…
15 September 2021 The last vestiges of US troops bid adieu to Afghan soil at midnight of August 30 before the deadline set for 31st August. It is ironic that…
27 August 2021 At the time of writing this, 13 US service members have been killed and another 18 servicemen injured and more than 90 Afghans dead with at least…
23 August 2021 For years the Taliban have denied the presence of foreign fighters amongst their ranks and the truth has been quite the opposite. Al-Qaeda and other groups, such…
17 August 2021 Major offensives by the Taliban over the past two weeks have netted them the overwhelming majority of Afghanistan. The flight of the Afghan President and the fall…
29 April 2021 The 20-year war in Afghanistan is drawing to an end. US Forces are locally drawing down in Afghanistan. Now the next chapter in the 42-year-old conflict begins.…
10 November 2020 Weakened partnerships with old allies, a global pandemic, the standing down of US forces after 19-years of operations, a diminished opinion of the United States that is…