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On May 1, 2023, Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old black man who was homeless, died after a 24-year-old white former Marine named Daniel Penny put him in a chokehold.. Neely boarded a New York City Subway train at the Second Avenue station just before it departed and reportedly began screaming that he was hungry, needed a job, was not afraid of going to prison, and was ready to die.
The Tongo Tongo ambush or the Niger ambush occurred on 4 October 2017, when armed militants from the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) attacked Nigerien and US soldiers outside the village of Tongo Tongo, Niger, while they were returning to base after a stop in the village. [ 21] During the ambush, four Nigeriens, four US soldiers, and ...
In the early hours of 9 March 2016, U.S. special forces and Somali national army special forces killed between 1 and 15 Al-Shabaab terrorists in a heliborne-attack on the Al-Shabaab-controlled town of Awdhegele, as well as capturing an undisclosed number of high-value Al-Shabaab figures the militants were training for a major operation against ...
Hummingbird (released as Redemption in the United States) is a 2013 action crime drama film written and directed by Steven Knight in his directorial debut. It stars Jason Statham as a haunted, alcoholic veteran who befriends a Catholic nun, becomes involved in organized crime, and exacts vengeance on a man who beats and kills prostitutes.
13–21 May 1985. Executed by. 4 Reconnaissance Regiment. Outcome. Angolan victory. Casualties. 1. Operation Argon (sometimes denoted simply as Operation Cabinda) was an unsuccessful military operation carried out by South African special forces in May 1985 with the objective of destroying six fuel storage tanks at Malongo in Angola 's Cabinda ...
The Wagner Group is a Russian paramilitary organization, also described as a private military company (PMC), a network of mercenaries, [ 1][ 2] and a de facto unit of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) or Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU. [ 3] It has conducted operations in various countries in the African continent since 2017 ...
t. e. uMkhonto weSizwe ( Xhosa pronunciation: [um̩ˈkʰonto we ˈsizwe]; abbreviated MK; English: Spear of the Nation) was the paramilitary wing of the African National Congress (ANC), founded by Nelson Mandela in the wake of the Sharpeville massacre. Its mission was to fight against the South African government.
New York police officers respond Monday to a subway train where a man who appeared to be suffering a mental health episode died after a fellow passenger restrained him with a chokehold.