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US Africa Command announced on Friday that its forces launched an airstrike in Somalia on February 13 targeting the ISIS affiliate in the northeastern Puntland region, marking at least the 31st US airstrike in the country this year. AFRICOM offered no details on the strike other than saying it was launched about 30 miles southeast […]

Israeli forces killed at least 12 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, according to the enclave’s rescue agency, as the IDF continues killing Palestinians in the Strip despite the US-backed ceasefire deal. Gaza’s Civil Defense said that one Israeli strike hit a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians in Jabalia, northern Gaza, killing at least five people. Another […]

As part of the US campaign to engineer a regime change in Iran, the US military and intelligence community are using Operational Preparation of the Environmnet aka OPE. OPE is defined in joint publications (e.g., JP 3-05 Special Operations) as non-intelligence activities conducted prior to or in preparation for potential military operations to set conditions […]