Forceduring recent strikes

Following the elimination of most of Hezbollah’s leadership and senior commanders from the elite Radwan Forceduring recent strikes in Beirut, Hezbollah has escalated its operations, likely in an attempt to prove that it still has the capacity to do so. In response to mounting Israeli military operations in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah has launched

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Vadim Shumkov and Vladislav

Both Malofeyev and the most prominent speakers from the Russian government devoted most of their attention to combatting the West and defeating Ukraine. Other speakers, including the governors of Kurgan and Kaluga oblasts, Vadim Shumkov and Vladislav Shapsha, respectively, focused on domestic affairs, specifically the handling of minorities—the a

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Walker told Radio Free Asia

Bruce Walker, now 91, is the last surviving CIA case officer out of about 30 officers who trained the Tibetan fighters at Camp Hale “I’m the last speaking CIA officer who can tell the story,” Walker told Radio Free Asia in an exclusive interview on the sidelines of the June commemoration ceremony His tale of the time spent there reveals the s

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achieve extraordinary prosperity

To achieve extraordinary prosperity, thanks in significant part to its iron ore and other exports to China, Australia had exited the Quad entente for nearly a decade. Through this single defense decision, Australia has allied itself firmly with the US. It will gain access to British submarine designs and top-secret US nuclear propulsion, joining th

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Although Manila won a unanimous

shoal in the Spratly Islands, where Filipino soldiers had to fish for their supper. With its external defense in tatters, in April 2014 the Philippines signed an Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement with Washington. This allowed the US military quasi-permanent facilities at five Filipino bases, including two on the shores of the South China Sea.

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