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Russian S-300 air defense systems on display at the opening of the MAKS Air Show in Zhukovsky outside Moscow, Russia. (AP/Ivan Sekretarev)
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As Russia Considers Air Defense Upgrade for Syria, US Makes Secret Visit to Israel

The Pentagon Is Planning a Three-Front ‘Long War’ Against China and Russia

Officials in Washington should be thinking hard before committing Americans to a strategy that will make this increasingly likely and could turn what is still long-war planning into an actual long war with deadly consequences.

April 5th, 2018
Michael T. Klare
April 5th, 2018
By Michael T. Klare
U.S. Army M2A2 and M2A3 Bradley fighting vehicles are unloaded at a pier in Busan, South Korea, June 29, 2011. (AP/Yonhap, Kim Sun-ho)

Think of it as the most momentous military planning on Earth right now. Who’s even paying attention, given the eternal changing of the guard at the White House, as well as the latest in tweets, sexual revelations, and investigations of every sort? And yet it increasingly looks as if, thanks to current Pentagon planning, a twenty-first-century

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Trump’s Pentagon Clamps Down on Secrecy Around US Air Wars

Under the guise of operational security, the Pentagon is being increasingly illusive on reporting the number and nature of US airstrikes in Afghanistan and Yemen.

March 15th, 2018
Jessica Purkiss
March 15th, 2018
By Jessica Purkiss
Photo of Hellfire missiles being loaded onto a US military Reaper drone in Afghanistan by Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson/U.S. Air Force

The US has quietly stepped up secrecy over its air wars in Afghanistan and Yemen since President Donald Trump entered office. The American Civil Liberties Union called the new practices – discovered by the Bureau through interviews with past and present US military officials – "deeply disturbing”. Towards the end of the Obama administration,

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America’s Drug Wars in Africa: Missing Money, and a Phantom $500 Million

Both AFRICOM and CENTCOM seem intent on pouring money into Africa’s Drug War, an effort that had produced few successes.

February 9th, 2018
Nick Turse
February 9th, 2018
By Nick Turse
A U.S. Special Forces soldier trains troops from Senegal combat techniques in Kati, Mali, during a joint training exercise with units from several African armies. (AP/Alfred de Montesquiou)

2017 was a year of investigations for U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM).  There was the investigation of the two-star commander of U.S. Army Africa who allegedly sent racy texts to an enlisted man’s wife.  There was the investigation into the alleged killing of a Special Forces soldier by Navy SEALs in Mali. There was the inquiry into reports of

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At Least 3,800 Civilians Killed By US-Coalition Attacks In Iraq, Syria Since 2014

“We have been killing a lot of civilians in and around Raqqa for quite some time now, yet these incidents are rarely admitted by the coalition and there is almost no interest from international media.”

June 5th, 2017
Common Dreams
June 5th, 2017
By Common Dreams
People inspect damage from US coalition airstrikes and artillery shelling in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, Syria, May 29, 2017. (Aamaq via AP)

With its latest official declaration estimating the number of innocent people killed by airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, the U.S. military has admitted killing 484 civilians since beginning a bombing campaign and ground operations to unseat the Islamic State (ISIS) from strongholds in the two countries. Though that number is far lower than

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Hundreds Of Civilian Causalities Reported From Overnight US-Led Airstrikes In Mosul

The casualties include an estimated 130 civilians from a single US airstrike on a large building in Mosul, Iraq.

March 24th, 2017
Jason Ditz
March 24th, 2017
By Jason Ditz
Residents carry the body of several people killed in Mosul, Iraq, Friday, March 24, 2017. Residents of the Iraqi city's neighborhood known as Mosul Jidideh at the scene say that scores of residents are believed to have been killed by airstrikes that hit a cluster of homes in the area. (AP/Felipe Dana)

As the US airstrikes in the Iraqi city of Mosul are increasingly concentrated around densely populated neighborhoods in the city’s west, the death toll from those airstrikes in spiraling rapidly out of control, with the most recent figures out of the area suggesting around 230 civilians were killed overnight in US and coalition strikes in just a

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US Airstike Hits Syrian Mosque Killing Dozens

While rescuers continue to search rubble for civilian victims, the attack has been widely condemned as war crime.

March 17th, 2017
Lauren McCauley
March 17th, 2017
By Lauren McCauley
Ppeople try to rescue survivors trapped under the debris of a Mosque after an aerial attack during prayer in the Cina village of Etarib district of Aleppo, Syria on March 16, 2017. (Photo: İbrahim Ebu Leys/ Anadolu Agency )

U.S. military officials have confirmed that a U.S. aircraft struck a mosque outside of Aleppo, Syria during evening prayers on Thursday, killing dozens of civilians, in an attack that many are calling a war crime. Airwars' Samuel Oakford reported that U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed that a raid "took place in the vicinity of al-Jinah

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