The Swedish Armed Forces have in recent years been betting on diversity, inclusivity, and equality, embracing mottos like “Our strength consists of differences”, “Come as you are”, and “We don’t always march straight”. Increasing the share of women is seen as another important milestone in “breaking up the male monopoly”. Despite numerous initiatives including costly ads and awareness-raising campaigns, the Swedish Armed Forces have failed to […]
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Ukraine is now reportedly in talks to buy additional 48 Bayraktar TB2 armed drones from Turkey, according to Nozdria Vadym general director of the state-run company for export and import of military and special products “UkrSpetsEksport”. In a statement to Lb.ua, a General Director of UkrSpetsEksport said Ukraine plans to get more Turkish drones, which the Ministry of Defense plans to put into service in the […]
A black militia group, the Not F***ing Around Coalition (NFAC), assembled in Lafayette, Louisiana to protest police violence. The demonstration comes amid growing racial tensions in the United States. Several hundred black-clad NFAC members, many of them carrying assault rifles, paraded through Lafayette on Saturday. The column included people wearing body armor and other tactical gear. The march was held to seek justice for Trayford Pellerin, […]
Police have been called to a home, reportedly owned by former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, Brad Parscale, after his wife reported he was armed and might hurt himself. The incident unravelled on Sunday afternoon in the Seven Isles community of Fort Lauderdale on Florida’s southeastern coast, where Parscale and his wife Candice own a house, the Sun Sentinel reported. Upon arriving to the scene, […]
LOUISVILLE—Protests over prosecutors failing to indict any cops for the March killing of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor flared up again here Thursday, even as the city was still picking up the pieces from an explosive night of violence and unrest. Less than 24 hours after Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a conservative Trump ally, declined to charge officers for fatally shooting Taylor, a Black emergency medical worker, during […]
Facebook suddenly disabled the account of video journalist Ford Fischer as he was covering armed protest groups Saturday in Louisville, raising fears that Big Tech censors are classifying newsgathering as incitement to violence. “I am a journalist, verified on Facebook,” Fischer wrote Saturday evening on his Twitter account. “Today I spent the entire day covering various armed groups throughout Louisville. As I just finished a livestream, […]
By Sajjad Shaukat for Veterans Today The 6th of September is celebrated every year as the Defense Day by every Pakistani, as on this very day, Pakistan’s courageous Armed Forces and the entire nation stood united in 1965 for the defense of the homeland against India’s nefarious designs which had threatened the territorial integrity of the country through an all-out war. This time, this very day […]
Hundreds of protesters from rival groups have descended on Louisville, with armed pro-police activists facing off with anti-racism protesters, as members of all-black NFAC militia staged yet another demonstration of force. Dressed in black combat fatigues and carrying automatic weapons, around 200 members of the Not F*****g Around Coalition (NFAC) gathered in Louisville on Saturday. Having checked their weapons, they marched to a park just outside […]
There have been four physical altercations between the troops of India and China since the beginning of the border stand-off on 27 April. The two countries are involved in several levels of diplomatic and military-level talks to disengage troops from the friction points along the loosely-demarcated 4,057 km border. Tensions have further escalated between India and China; fresh clashes erupted in Pangong Lake’s Chushul Valley overnight […]
Gaige Grosskreutz was armed with a pistol when 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse blew his bicep apart with a semi-automatic rifle in Kenosha, Wisconsin. In a Facebook post gone viral, Grosskreutz regrets not killing the teenager. Rittenhouse has been arrested and charged with murder after he shot three people during the rioting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday night. Two died, and a third, Grosskreutz, has had surgery to […]
There was a knife under the seat of Jacob Blake’s car, where he was reaching when Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey shot him, the Wisconsin Department of Justice has revealed. The incident touched off three days of riots. Sheskey, a 7-year veteran of the Kenosha PD, was among the officers dispatched on Sunday to a call from a woman who said “her boyfriend was present and was not […]
Riots and protests erupted Tuesday evening for the third night in a row in Kenosha following an officer-involved shooting Sunday. The terrorists destroyed multiple businesses and burned down several buildings over the last two nights so armed patriots decided to move in and defend their property. Armed patriots showed up on night three and defended their property from the rooftop. WATCH: TRENDING: Media Blackout: North Carolina […]
Relations between the Asian powers worsened dramatically in June, after Indian and Chinese troops engaged in deadly melee combat in a disputed area in the Galwan River Valley situated between Ladakh, India and China’s Tibet Autonomous Region. Indian troops armed with Russian-made Igla man-portable shoulder-launched air defence systems have been deployed near the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh amid alleged Chinese helicopter flights along […]
The United Kingdom is currently maintaining an arsenal of 227 Challenger 2 tanks, although military authorities appear to believe that the motorized weapons are “obsolete”, after former Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt warned in 2019 that the UK has not been militarily “competitive”. Top UK military brass are mulling the idea of scrapping all tanks in the country, in a move to modernise the armed forces, according […]
In the wake of the latest police shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, protesters armed to the teeth with semi-automatic rifles have faced down an armored personnel carrier, amid widespread rioting, looting and violence. In a disturbing escalation of tensions, several heavily armed and armored protesters surrounded the police BearCat vehicle in the early hours of Monday morning. At one point, an officer is seen opening the hatch […]
Wisconsin rioters were confronting officers with rifles while blocking their vehicle, taunting them, and challenging them to fire tear gas on Sunday night. Officers threw what appeared to be either tear gas or smoke grenades from the vehicle to disperse the militant leftists. At least two of them were carrying rifles. This bro was tripping like crazy in #Kenosha, Wisconsin running up on SWAT with his […]
Police officers in Lafayette, Louisiana have shot and killed a man who resisted arrest and tried to walk into a gas station store ‘armed with a knife’, triggering a new wave of outrage over police brutality and ‘systemic racism.’ Lafayette Police Department officers responded to a disturbance call, involving a man with a knife at a Shell gas station around 8pm Friday. When they tried to […]
A group of ‘peaceful’ BLM-Antifa ‘protesters’ marched to Seattle police chief Carmen Best’s Snohomish County home this week. The police chief didn’t want these ‘peaceful protesters’ in her yard, so she wrote a letter to the City Council instructing them to “forcefully call for the end of these tactics.” It’s all fun and games to the radical left-wing officials until the militants show up to their […]
Welcome To Sectarian America: A People, Divided And Armed By Danny Sjursen, Scheerpost.com. August 3, 2020 Welcome To Sectarian America: A People, Divided And Armed2020-08-032020-08-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/boogaloo-movement-in-new-hampshire-by-michael-dwyer-for-associated-press-e1596473815663.jpg200px200px Above photo: People, including those with the boogaloo movement, demonstrate against business closures due to concern about COVID-19, at the State House in Concord, N.H. Michael Dwyer/AP Photo. Our nation faces a perfect storm of crises and may be teetering on the brink of […]
A driver and and Antifa-Black Lives Matter protester faced off against each other with drawn handguns In Eugene, Oregon Saturday night when protesters blocked a street, preventing the driver from passing through. Screen image from C. Francis O’Leary video. Video of the incident was posted to Twitter by C. Francis O’Leary, Managing Editor of the Daily Emerald. No one was shot and the impasse ended peacefully, […]
One person was killed and another wounded following an apparent shooting at a US airbase in Florida, triggering a brief lockdown at the facility. The Air Force has labeled the incident an “armed domestic disturbance.” The lethal shooting unfolded at the Hurlburt Field air base in Florida’s Okaloosa County on Friday, the military confirmed in a statement. The injured person was brought to hospital for treatment, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105128/39/1051283978_0:218:4288:2630_1200x675_80_0_0_669daf640e5acaf796c30448e3ab9ac2.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/africa/202007211079948893-armed-attack-in-nigerias-north-leaves-10-people-killed-scores-injured—reports/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Ten people were killed and numerous others injured as a result of a gun attack in Nigeria’s northern state of Kaduna, Chinese media reported on Tuesday, citing its sources. According to the Xinhua news agency, the attack was carried out by armed gunmen in the Gora Gan village of Kaduna’s Zango-Kataf area. There was reportedly a […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0b/1079858614_0:0:3015:1697_1200x675_80_0_0_eccccef8614ed0e0237472432e31c962.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202007111079858544-eight-insurgents-killed-after-militants-launch-unsuccessful-attack-on-syrian-armed-forces-in-idlib/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Syrian armed forces have repelled up to 250 militants who launched an attack in Idlib province, with eight insurgents killed in the fighting, Rear Adm. Alexander Shcherbitsky, the head of the Russian Defence Ministry’s centre for Syrian reconciliation, said on Saturday. The head of the centre for Syrian reconciliation noted that the Syrian armed forces […]
A sculpture of Juan de Oñate’s settlers arriving in New Mexico is pictured as workers for the City of Albuquerque remove a sculpture of the Spanish conquistador on June 16, in Albuquerque, the day after the melee. Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images A sculpture of Juan de Oñate’s settlers arriving in New Mexico is pictured as workers […]
Stone Mountain Georgia is the heart of the Klan, heart of the Confederacy and the heart of race hatred and antisemitism in America. A dozen militias swore to defend Stone Mountain with armed fat whiteguys, MAGA-men if threatened but on July 4, there must have been a monster truck rally somewhere nearby. MAGA-men in Lansing, Michigan None could be found when the black folks came, and […]
Hundreds of black armed NFAC protesters marched on Stone Mountain Georgia on the 4th of July. The Stone Mountain memorial opened on the 4th of July weekend following the COVID-19 pandemic. Advertisement – story continues below Oh, but @thehill thinks @jsolomonReports‘ reporting didn’t match up to its editorial standards. 😒😒 https://t.co/F0LBHoIB0N pic.twitter.com/xaxvtnqW0S — Joey Vazquez (@JV3MRC) July 5, 2020 TRENDING: Nike Spokesman Colin Kaepernick’s Independence Day […]
Last weekend hundreds of Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters broke through the gate on Portland Place, a private street in St. Louis. Mark and Patricia McCloskey were eating dinner when the criminal mob marched down their street, painted the street and protested in front of Mayor Lyda Krewson’s home. The McCloskeys, in fear for their lives and property, armed themselves and told the protesters to […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107054/01/1070540135_0:207:4596:2793_1200x675_80_0_0_1372b1910515fcac0e8edd27f676c795.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202007021079778418-police-arrest-armed-man-near-trudeaus-residence-prime-minister-was-not-home/ TORONTO (Sputnik) – Canadian police have arrested an armed man who was able to gain access to the grounds of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s residence in Ottawa, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said in a statement on Thursday. “At approximately 6:40 [10:40 a.m. GMT] this morning, an armed man was able to access the grounds of 1 Sussex […]
Twenty-four people were shot dead after a group of gunmen stormed a drug rehab center in Central Mexico and opened fire on patients and employees, the second deadly attack on the facility since last month. The alleged mass shooting in the city of Irapuato on Wednesday was first reported in local media and later confirmed by Pedro Zavala, Secretary of Municipal Citizen Security, who said the […]
Earlier, US President Donald Trump tweeted that would veto the defence authorisation bill if it contains an amendment calling for changing the Confederate-related names of US military bases. The US House Armed Services Committee voted for the amendment to the annual defence policy bill that envisages stripping Confederate names off of military bases and other property within one year. The amendment, offered by Representatives Anthony Brown and […]
29 Jun, 2020 06:04 Follow RT on A group of militants armed with guns and grenades has attacked the Pakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi. Several civilians and attackers have been killed in the battle, local media reported, citing police. Four gunmen first attacked the main gate of the building with a grenade, then broke inside and opened fire indiscriminately, Geo News reported. Police quickly rushed to the […]
A St. Louis couple is being doxed and threatened on Twitter after making it clear they were willing to defend their home as “protesters” came by. The couple stood armed outside their beautiful home as the mob marched by shouting. A couple has come out of their house and is pointing guns at protesters in their neighborhood #StLouis #lydakrewson pic.twitter.com/ZJ8a553PAU — Daniel Shular (@xshularx) June 29, […]
A man and a woman have been filmed brandishing guns at protesters who swarmed at the edge of their property, after a group of Black Lives Matter activists crashed the gates into a rich neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri. Multiple videos of the altercation went viral online, with the couple earning both praise for ‘standing their ground’, criticism for ‘mishandling’ the guns, and condemnation for ‘threatening […]