SOCOM took to Facebook and its other social accounts on Thursday to announce that Richard Torres-Estrada had been appointed the new diversity chief, saying he has “nearly two decades worth of experience working diversity and inclusion programs and activities in federal agencies.” While it appended the hashtag “#QuietProfessionals” to the …
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Saifullah Yar was just 19 when his family were shot dead in an SAS raid on their Afghan village in 2011. When British military investigators flew to Kabul in 2017 to investigate the raid, he told them he was handcuffed and led away from his father, brother and two male …
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The pair of plainclothed Bundeswehr soldiers turned up at an Arizona medical clinic looking to find out whether Germans would be able to receive treatment there in case of injury or infection with Covid-19. But the mystery men’s visit set off alarms among the hospital staff, German outlet Der Spiegel …
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Joe, my dear boy, it’s so wonderful to see you here in, ahm, Carbis Bay in sunny Cornwall. First off, around here folks call me BoJo and – if I may be so bold – may I call you JoBi? Marvellous, marvellous. That’s simply marvellous, old bean. JoBi it is, …
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The Norweigan government released a statement on Friday in which it explained that the decision to bar direct flights from the United Kingdom will be lifted, starting on Saturday at 17:00 local time (16:00 GMT), but that strict health guidelines for people coming from the UK will continue. Under the …
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An open letter to the US President was published by the UN expert on Tuesday, with Melzer joining the chorus of calls to pardon Assange. Melzer stressed that Assange is “extremely vulnerable,” with his health greatly deteriorated over the years of isolation in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, as well …
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Barr announced on Monday that he had no plans to appoint a special counsel to investigate the younger Biden, explaining he saw no reason for one. The attorney general is leaving his post this week after tendering his resignation in a letter earlier this month. Hunter Biden recently revealed his …
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The US military is “buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps,” Joseph Cox of VICE’s Motherboard wrote on Monday. Specifically, one of the buyers is the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), which deals with counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism and various covert activity around the globe. …
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The government is appointing a special investigator to examine and potentially prosecute the allegations of misconduct of the troops in Afghanistan, Morrison announced. The inquiry into the actions of the army was commissioned in 2016. The redacted version of the final report is due to be released next week. However, …
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When Australia’s elite SAS soldiers would raid villages in Afghanistan, they brought terror and death with them, a report seen by Melbourne newspaper The Age alleges. The special forces “would take the men and boys to these guest houses and interrogate them, meaning tie them up and torture them,” the …
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