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A meeting which probably would have focused on the refugee crisis was cancelled at the last minute due to “concrete warnings by German security authorities of a terrorist threat.” Germany’s Nancy Faeser had planned to visit Damascus with Austrian counterpart Gerhard Karner, and a German military plane was supposed to fly Faeser’s delegation into Syria from Jordan on Thursday morning, …

President Donald Trump plans to expel millions of immigrants in the United States without proper documentation. Private military companies say they are available to help, for the right price. In March 2025, Academi head Erik Prince put together a memo and logistics plan to help the Trump administration deport millions of people. He said that if the Trump administration wants …

For many years, doctors believed that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder randomly affected some people who went through extremely stressful situations. Although the latest science has clearly debunked that idea, many doctors still cling to the old ways. Extreme stress causes a chemical imbalance in the brain, much like a loud noise, like an explosive blast, causes a traumatic brain injury …

Thousands of people live at a strategically vital military base that has a controversial past. Most people know nothing about this base or its past. In the words of Robert Kaplan, the Indian Ocean will be “center stage for the twenty-first century.” “Like a microcosm of the world at large, the greater Indian Ocean region is developing into an area …

In February 2025, incoming Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had a brief but productive telephone conference with Qatar Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Defense Affairs Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman bin Hassan bin Ali Al Thani, according to a DoD News release. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and the Qatari Minister of State for Defense Affairs Sheikh Saoud bin …