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In February 2025, a  North Carolina-based company announced it would pay U.S. special forces veterans $1,100 per day, and a $10,000 signing bonus, to staff a checkpoint in Gaza. The contractors will staff the checkpoint at a key intersection in Gaza’s interior, said the spokesperson, who confirmed the authenticity of the email. The rules of engagement governing when UG Solutions …

American diplomats proposed replacing Israeli forces in southern Lebanon with private military contractors, an idea that others quickly rejected. The U.S., which co-brokered the ceasefire deal, offered to deploy private contractors in Netzarim, according to an American diplomatic source. This region includes several strategic areas. Al-Oweida hill, located between the Lebanese border towns of Meis al-Jabal and Blida, oversees many …

Open-air waste disposal pits (burn pits) dotted Afghanistan and Iraq during those long wars. Those conflicts are over now, but the private military contractors who lived and worked near these burn pits still suffer serious ill effects, some of which are outlined below. In most cases, burn pit-related illnesses are debilitating or fatal. The DoD reasoned that, since burn pits …

In January 2025, incoming President Donald Trump reversed a Biden-era policy and placed Cuba on a list of countries that sponsor terrorism. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel calls Trump’s move “arrogant” and a setback for the Cuban people. However, Díaz-Canel said Cuba would endure and ultimately thrive despite the renewed U.S. pressure. For several decades, Cuba has faced economic hardship due …

One of Donald Trump’s first executive orders in his new administration prevented family members of American servicemembers in Afghanistan from emigrating to America. An estimated 200 family members of U.S. troops are in Afghanistan and attempting to flee the Taliban through the U.S. Refugees Admissions Program, or USRAP, said Shawn Vandiver, president of AfghanEvac, an organization that helps Afghan allies …