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El Chapo's sons had a revealingly flamboyant luxury-watch collection
In the old days, secrecy and discretion were the rule for Mexican drug lords.Take Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, for example. Known as “the world’s most powerful trafficker,” the 60-year-old only appears...
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This map shows Russia's game-changing militarization of the Arctic
As the Arctic warms, Russia is positioning itself to become the dominant player in a resource-rich and strategically positioned region. In order to capitalize on the oil and gas under the Arctic seabed...
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Here’s how US Marines evacuate an American Embassy
The U.S. Marine Corps has the unique mission of securing embassies worldwide. Marines are stationed in embassies as security, they’re sent as reinforcements for diplomatic missions that find themselves...
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Ghost fleet: Amazing photos of a WWII ship graveyard in Truk Lagoon
My dream history lesson includes a tropical Pacific island where I step off a beautiful boat soaked in sunshine in the warm Micronesian waters and descend on a coral covered ship that was part of World...
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The US Coast Guard lost 4,000 pounds of cocaine in the Pacific Ocean during a...
In the largest drug bust of its kind, the US Coast Guard seized more than six tons of cocaine worth an estimated $181 million from a smuggling vessel 200 miles off the coast of Central America.The...
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US-led warplanes are going after ISIS' most devastating weapon
US-led coalition forces launched a successful airstrike last weekend against a crucial Islamic State explosives facility. The strikes destroyed a facility near Makhmur, Iraq, that was used to produce...
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Here's Russia's new 5th gen fighter performing impressive aerial acrobatics
The Russian Sukhoi T-50 is going to be a tough adversary for both the F-22 and F-35.A video published by the TV channel Zvezda shows a Sukhoi PAK FA prototype performing some stunning aerobatics that...
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The US military took these incredible photos this week
The military has very talented photographers in its ranks, and they constantly attempt to capture what life as a service member is like during training and at war. This is the best of what they shot...
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US Army Green Beret killed in an attack on Kabul
An Army Green Beret from Rhode Island has been killed in Afghanistan just a month after he was honored at the historic Fourth of July parade in his hometown of Bristol.The 7th Special Forces Group to...
View ArticleThe 5 weirdest phrases only people in the military understand
Members of the military have a special language that is very much their own. Here's a cheat sheet on what some of their weirdest phrases mean. Produced by Eames Yates. Original reporting by Jeremy...
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Venezuela's embattled president is acting like he wants to annex 2/3rds of a...
“In defense of the homeland” is President Nicolas Maduro’s renewed public speech, reframed in a manner to evoke patriotic emotions and divert the attention from the domestic emergency.Venezuela is...
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Kurds are coordinating US-led airstrikes against ISIS with Google Maps and...
The Syrian Kurds are calling US-led airstrikes against the Islamic State using walkie talkies, Google Earth, and Samsung tablets, Rukmini Callimachi of The New York Times notes from northeast Syria....
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Don't count the Arab states out in the Middle East's post-Iran deal power...
Unfreezing $150 billion in Iranian assets would give Tehran an instant boost and turn the military status quo across the Middle East in its favor, or so argue opponents of the Iran deal.Another...
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Russian warships dock in Iran for training exercises
Two Russian warships have docked in northern Iran for a series of naval training exercises with the Islamic Republic, according to Persian-language reports translated by the CIA’s Open Source...
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Senior Iranian official: ‘Bragging’ Obama is ‘under an illusion’ about the...
A senior Iranian official close to the Supreme Leader recently mocked President Obama’s remarks about the recently signed nuclear accord as “bragging” and accused the US leader of being “under an...
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5 ways the Russian military is falling apart
Russia has been saber-rattling so hard that cracks are forming in the blade and the hilt seems to be falling off. The military has been embarrassed by a number of of high-profile failures and missteps...
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China wants to build giant floating islands in the South China Sea
China's military wants the ability to create large modular artificial islands that can be repositioned around the world as necessary. And it's not as outlandish a goal as it might seem.According to...
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It's been a suspiciously long time since the leader of Al Qaeda made a public...
The emir of al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahri, has not made any public statements since September 2014.His now 11-month long absence is unprecedented. Next month will be a key test for Zawahri: the...
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Putin is actually in serious trouble
Are little green men about to appear on the North Pole?Russia's claim last week, using an extremely creative interpretation of international law, to exclusive economic rights to nearly half a million...
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One of the F-35's most expensive features was made possible by flying saucers
The US Air Force's push to develop operational flying saucers 60 years ago laid the conceptual groundwork for one of the variants of Lockheed Martin's F-35, MIT Technology Review reports. The F-35...
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