August 13, 2016Fred Reed Don’t look for a walk-over. The T14 Armata, Russia’s latest tank. You don’t want to fight this monster if you can think of a better idea, such as not fighting it. Russia once made large numbers of second-rate tanks. That worm has turned. This thing is way advanced and outguns the…
Aug 12, 2016 Tyler Durden There are movies, and then there is real life. Global military spending rose to $1.68 trillion in 2015, making up about 2.3 percent of the world’s gross domestic product, according to Bloomberg. To document a small portion of it, over the past four years, photographer Guillaume Herbaut has been traveling to…
11.08.2016 Russia plans to expand its Hmeymim Air Base in Syria to ensure that its operations run smoothly and to enhance its security by adding extra aprons, building barracks and a hospital, as well as assigning extra space for large transport aircraft, etc., an unnamed source in the Russian Defense Ministry told Izvestiya. The plan…
Islamic State’s top regional leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been killed by a US drone strike in a joint US-Afghan military operation in an eastern Afghan province, the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan has claimed. “I can confirm that ISIS Khurasan leader Hafiz Saeed Khan along with his senior commanders and fighters died in a…
[facebook url=”https://www.facebook.com/RTvids/videos/1279119338764983/” /] CCTV footage shows that the man – identified only as “Matibool” – was struck by the speeding delivery truck at 5:40 am on Wednesday as he was walking home from an overnight shift as a security guard. The impact caused the man to fly through the air and land in a nearby…
11 August 2016William J. Astore The United States is now engaged in perpetual war with victory nowhere in sight. Iraq is chaotic and scarred. So, too, is Libya. Syria barely exists. After 15 years, “progress” in Afghanistan has proven eminently reversible as efforts to rollback recent Taliban gains continue to falter. The Islamic State may…
