Targeted Killings

Raja Chari, a veteran U.S. Air Force test pilot and combat veteran awaiting launch on a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, is the first rookie astronaut to command a NASA space mission since the final crew blasted off to the Skylab space station in 1973. The 44-year-old Air Force colonel leads…

A member of the U.S. Air Force stationed at a NATO base in Italy sexually assaulted an intoxicated teenager, then fled to the United States in an attempt to avoid a seven-year prison sentence, according to prosecutors. Now, the government of Italy would like him back so he can be…

August 17, 2021 - 03:50AM Storyful “Thousands” of people again flocked to the Kabul airport on August 16 in a bid to escape after the Afghan capital fell under Taliban control the previous day, journalist Matthieu Aikins reported. Aikins recorded this video outside the gates of Hamid Karzai International Airport…

An Australian Defence Force mission to urgently evacuate Australian personnel and Afghan aides is now underway with a Royal Australian Air Force flight departing Kabul International Airport on Wednesday morning. Sky News Australia understands the operation commenced in the early hours of Wednesday with an Australian Hercules aircraft – a…

Senator Bala Na’Allah, representing Kebbi South, said he spoke with his late son, Abdulkareem, about the country’s worsening security a few hours before the news of his murdered on Sunday. The lawmaker, who is also the Senate Committee Chairman on Air Force, noted that the discussion he had with his…

New Delhi: In view of emerging threats from drones, Indian Navy on Tuesday signed a contract with defence PSU Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) for supply of the first indigenous comprehensive Naval Anti Drone System (NADS) with both hard kill and soft kill capabilities. The NADS, developed by DRDO and manufactured…

by Park Si-soo — August 30, 2021 South Korea's air force chief of staff, Gen. Park In-ho, right, and U.S. chief of space operations, Gen. John Raymond, sign a memorandum of understanding on forming a joint space policy consultative body at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Aug.…

New Delhi: After helping in the evacuation of more than 500 Indians from Afghanistan, Indian Air Force (IAF) transport aircraft have returned to their respective home bases in the country. The Indian Air Force had deployed its C-17 Globemasters and C-130J Super Hercules aircraft for evacuation operations of Indians stuck…

Learned Helplessness: The Poison Pill Threat to Black America, a new book by Colonel Vaughan Witten, has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. Learned Helplessness: The Poison Pill Threat to Black America discusses t he self-destructive behavior of the American Black male, his delusional belief of victimization by a…

Clinton Crosier, a retired U.S. Air Force major general who helped organize the standup of the U.S. Space Force, recently celebrated his anniversary of joining cloud giant AWS to lead its newly created Aerospace and Satellite business team. SpaceNews caught up with Crosier at the Space Symposium in Colorado to…