Bad recent history: When former dictator Mobutu Sese Seko fell in 1997, war erupted throughout Congo. A series of peace agreements -- U.N. blessed -- purportedly ended the Great Congo War in 2003.

Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, foreign workers have stopped entering Russia or left because so many of them were coerced into the Russian army to die in Ukraine. All this led to a crippling labor ...

Poland also contributed in terms of spending more on defense, by spending 4.5 percent of GDP on defense. The goal is five percent, which will take a few more years to achieve. Poland is spending ...

June 30, 2025: Last month three Ukrainian men were arrested in Germany and Switzerland and accused of planning sabotage operations against German foreign movement operations. This was to be done by ...

The latest one, in April, occurred 80 kilometers east of Moscow at the Grau ammunition depot. More than a square kilometer was scorched by the explosions, destroying 105,000 tons of munitions. Some ...

While many Chinese officers were found to be corrupt and incompetent, there were exceptions, but not enough to command the number of operable ships, heavy weapons, and aircraft available. Corruption ...

In response to the Russian partisan attacks, the Russian army deployed over 30,000 soldiers in border areas where the partisans, both Russian and Ukrainian, were operating. The partisans were numerous ...

June 22, 2025: The Central African Republic/CAR is suffering an unprecedented outbreak of fighting between nomadic herders and farmers who have long tilled the land and produced the food that feeds ...

There are also a large number of volunteers serving as support personnel or assisting the Ukrainians to rebuild as well as helping Ukrainian civilians made homeless by the fighting. Many of these ...

The carrier Truman was called in to deliver a knockout against the Houthis and did so with the largest ever number of airstrikes against a single target, the Houthis in Yemen. It worked and in early ...

North Korea has extended the service obligation for new recruits from eight to ten years for men and from five to seven years for women. This change is imperative because North Korea is running out of ...

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 there have been some interesting changes inside Russia. One of them has been the rapid growth of a Russian nationalist organization called The Russian ...