US troops fully depart al-Asad Air Base in Iraq - American forces left on Saturday, after using the base for years as part of anti-ISIS operations taskandpurpose.com/news/us-troo...

Signs Emerge Of US Navy, Air Force Push To Middle East - As Trump mulls over what to do about Iran, U.S. forces are deploying to the region www.twz.com/news-feature...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a series of advisories suggesting aircraft should be prepared for US military activity over specified areas of Mexico, Central America, Panama, Bogota, Guayaquil, and Mazatlan Oceanic Flight Regions news.antiwar.com/2026/01/18/f...

Syrian army moves into Raqqa city after seizing key oil fields from US-backed SDF thecradle.co/articles/syr...

Damascus, SDF sign second integration agreement, halt fighting www.rudaw.net/english/midd...

(15-1) US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) has been ordered to head to the Middle East in response to escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran - It will take a week for the Lincoln to transit from the Pacific to the Middle East @forbes www.forbes.com/sites/peters...

Argos - F-35: Onder Trumps vleugels - Wat gebeurt er als de Amerikanen definitief niet meer aan onze kant staan? argos.vpro.nl/collecties/f...

Teken en verspreid het nieuw Europees Burgerinitiatief voor de opschorting van het EU-Israël associatieakkoord. Een Europees burgerinitiatief is geldig als er ten minste één miljoen geldige handtekeningen voor zijn verzameld met en in ten minste zeven landen de minimumdrempel is gehaald.

Stalin versloeg het Derde Rijk in 1418 dagen - Putin is het echter niet gelukt de oorlog met Oekraïne in 1418 dagen te winnen - Dat werpt lastige vragen op volgens @Polityka_pl @MichaFiszer www.eurotopics.net/en/351117/wa... @eurotopics_en

! De NOS vliegt vanmorgen ongelooflijk uit de bocht door te beweren dat het VK een nucleair wapen gaat leveren aan Oekraïne. Vertaalfout… Warhead = springkop, niet kernkop….

Echt oder falsch? Die merkwürdigen Bilder von Nicolas Maduro – infosperber www.infosperber.ch/medien/echt-...

Dutch State Secretary of Defence challenged industry leaders to propose a domestic deep precision strike (DPS) cruise missile with a range of over 1,000 km to rival the US Tomahawk: ‘Long-range deterrence can no longer be outsourced.’ moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/01/07/e... @MDiplomacyWORLD

SCMP: China to lead joint naval drills with Brics nations in South African waters - Media reports named Russia and Iran as participants, with Indonesia and Ethiopia also likely to take part www.yahoo.com/news/article... @@YahooNews

How is Arabic gum financing the war in Sudan? - “The trade has … traditionally [been] quite opaque, and there are no clear figures,” Joris van de Sandt, a researcher with Dutch peace organisation PAX, told Al Jazeera aje.io/gr1tfo @AJEnglish

US special forces seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker with links to Venezuela in the North Atlantic after a weeks-long pursuit - US military’s European Command said Marinera oil tanker was seized on Wednesday “for violations of US sanctions” aje.io/8znq68 @AJEnglish

Netherlands dials back on US Caribbean drug missions amid Venezuela tensions, its naval “station ship” will not be used for interdictions on the high seas linked to US Operation Southern Spear www.politico.eu/article/neth...

Volgens onderzoek van Die Zeit heeft de Bundesnachrichtendienst tot 2014 telefoongesprekken die president Obama voerde vanuit de Air Force One afgeluisterd - Gebrekkige versleuteling van de gesprekken vanuit het vliegtuig www.zeit.de/politik/ausl... @zeitonline

'Night Stalkers' - special operations force of the US Army that provides helicopter aviation support for special operations forces - landed in Europe overnight.

Behind Israel’s Wars Lies a Global Spy Machine libertarianinstitute.org/articles/beh...

Israel is expanding and strengthening its ’temporary’ military bases on five hilltop sites in southern Lebanon www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

The new plan won’t come cheap. The EU is expected to pay €3 billion annually in interest from 2028 through its seven-year budget, which is largely financed by EU governments www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...

America's Khrushchev moment - “Peaceful coexistence” is quite literally what Trump is now saying he wants to achieve with Russia - And just like Khrushchev, he’s telling the partners the struggle you organized everything around no longer worth it to us open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbe...

Trump, Netanyahu 'quietly planned' Iran war since February - Tel Aviv and Washington encouraged reports claiming a 'rift' between Trump and Netanyahu, to keep Iran 'distracted' and under the impression that the US was opposed to war thecradle.co/articles-id/...

(4-12) US Navy released summaries for four investigations into incidents with aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman between December 2024 and May 2025 (collision with a merchant vessel, loss of three F/A-18 Super Hornets) www.navytimes.com/news/your-na... www.navytimes.com/news/your-na...

Trump plans to appoint US two-star general to lead Gaza security force - But: no US boots on the ground www.axios.com/2025/12/11/g...

FBI making list of American “extremists” - Targets: opposition to immigration enforcement; views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology, anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity @kenklippenstein www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...

Israel conducts widespread surveillance of US forces stationed at the US Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) in the country’s south - The US commander of the base summoned an Israeli counterpart to tell him that “recording has to stop here” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

French commercial banks hold the second-largest amount of frozen Russian central bank assets in Europe, around €18bn - It is ‘shielding these frozen assets as EU aims to fund huge Ukraine loan tvpworld.com/90441568/ukr...

Gezien de oplopende spanningen stuurt Defensie het Combat Support Ship Den Helder (A834) van de marine uit voorzorg terug naar de Cariben - „Het is indien nodig beschikbaar voor bevoorrading” www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/d...

Persbericht: Nederlandse vredesbeweging: ‘Pas op voor grote oorlog met Rusland!’ nieuwevredesbeweging.nl/2025/12/04/p...

Israel to build wall deep inside West Bank that ‘accelerates annexation’ - New Jordan Valley separation barrier will isolate Palestinians from their land and sever links with the rest of West Bank www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-... www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...

US Central Command launch“first one-way-attack drone squadron based in the Middle East”, Task Force Scorpion Strike (TFSS) news.antiwar.com/2025/12/03/u... news.antiwar.com/2025/12/03/u...

$148 billion spent by the US in its failed attempt to build a free Afghanistan, according to the final report by the official watchdog office, whose careful documentation of waste and fraud, and its warnings of Taliban resurgence, went largely unheeded www.defenseone.com/threats/2025...

Inlichtingendiensten zitten "dicht op de huid van de journalistiek in Nederland" - Dit blijkt uit onderzoek Monitor Journalistiek en Inlichtingendiensten van Stella Braam en Huub Jaspers, gesteund door de NVJ en gefinancierd door Stichting Muckraker www.villamedia.nl/artikel/onde...

Hegseth put US troops, mission at risk with Signal use, AP sources say - Several military officials told AP there was no way details with that specificity, especially before a [Yemen] strike took place, would have been OK to share on an unsecured device www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...

US Central Command and Bahrain on Monday opened a second bilateral Combined Command Post for air defense at Al Bar Camp - On Nov. 3, US and Qatari forces opened the first air defense post at Al Udeid Air Base upi.com/4661764621394 @upi

Russia's arms-makers boosted income last year despite Western sanction and falling foreign sales thanks to the country's own military, according to new data released Monday by the SIPRI in Stockholm www.politico.eu/article/russ...

Sudan’s military government has offered Russia its first naval base in Africa overlooking critical Red Sea trade routes - Moscow would have for 25 years the right to station 300 troops and dock four warships at Port Sudan or another Red Sea facility www.wsj.com/world/africa...

Guinea-Bissau’s new military ruler moves to consolidate power after coup aje.io/fw8si0 via @AJEnglish

US urges Lebanon to return undetonated small diameter gliding bomb GBU-39 from Boeing that was fired on Beirut | The Jerusalem Post www.jpost.com/middle-east/...

Guerilla Fighters in West Papua Are Facing Extermination by Indonesia's High-Tech Forces www.dropsitenews.com/p/west-papua...

De Bundeswehr overweegt ook jaargangen 1993-2007 op te roepen voor de reserve - Partijen willen wel dat dit op basis van vrijwilligheid gebeurt www.merkur.de/politik/den-...

Two former heads of all UK Special Forces suppressed evidence of possible SAS war crimes in Afghanistan, a former high-ranking officer has told a public inquiry in closed evidence sessions www.bbc.com/news/article...

Baghdad announces US coalition 'completes' Iraq mission - Commander of Iraq’s Joint Operations Command (JOC): "All international coalition forces are now in the Kurdistan Region”, four to five personnel remain to handle logistical and diplomatic affairs thecradle.co/articles-id/...

A group of military officers in Guinea-Bissau, the High Military Command for the Restoration of Order, claims “total control” of the country, a day after two leading candidates in a tightly contested presidential election each declared victory aje.io/49ai7z

The "Zero Units" that the National Guard shooting suspect reportedly worked for were composed of Afghan nationals and operated under the National Directorate of Security (NDS), intelligence agency with CIA backing www.cbsnews.com/news/nationa...

B-52 Returns to Caribbean for Second Mission in Five Days www.airandspaceforces.com/b-52-returns...

Israel used banned cluster munitions in recent 13-month war in Lebanon, photos of munition remnants in south Lebanon seen by the Guardian suggest - Israel used two new types of cluster muno, 155mm M999 Barak Eitan and 227mm Ra’am Eitan guided missiles www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

UK allowed arms exports to UAE after being told weapons given to RSF - British-manufactured small-arms target systems and engines for armoured personnel carriers were found in Rapid Support Forces (RSF) hands in combat zones in Sudan www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-allo...

Meerdere Europese landen, waaronder Nederland, weigeren nu inlichtingen over het Caribisch gebied die kunnen dienen voor luchtaanvallen te delen met de VS www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...