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Details regarding private military contractor deployment is a closely-guarded secret. However, the U.S. Central Command issues quarterly figures that convey some general items about contractor deployment. According to CENTCOM, over 52,000 contractors were in the field in countries under the command’s jurisdiction. Over half these contractors were in Afghanistan. Almost 6.300 contractors were in “Iraq and Syria.” CENTCOM provided no …

Violence in this war-torn country has moved up to the next level, according to the U.S. Africa Command, since Russian fighter planes are now based at Al Jufra Airfield, which is about 200 miles southeast of Tripoli. American intelligence officers believe that the MiG-29 and Su-24 aircraft flew to Syria, where they were repainted to conceal their Russian Air Force …

In June 2020, a Bat Hawk ultralight aircraft crashed under suspicious circumstances while on routine patrol near the city of Mudimbe. Rescuers located the badly-injured Dyck Advisory Group pilot in a heavily wooded area. He is recovering in a South African hospital. Military commanders are concerned about the crash. In April, Islamic militants shot down a contractor’s helicopter. And, Bat …

Former prison doctor Alaa Mousa may soon become the third Assad-affiliated physician to face such charges. Authorities arrested Mousa in Germany, where he was apparently trying to evade capture. Along with millions of other refugees, Mousa fled to Germany in 2015, where he resumed practicing medicine. Before then, he was on the medical staff at an undisclosed facility near Homs. …

Fears that China’s most recent land-grabbing moves might involve Japan prompted officials to redeploy advanced ballistic missiles provided and maintained by Lockheed Martin. Territorial expansion is a basic tenant of the Chinese Communist Party, so China’s neighbors are understandably alarmed over the latest acts of aggression at the Indian border. By summer 2020, The Land of the Rising Sun intends …