
According to a new report from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) at Uppsala University, organized violence in armed conflicts during 2022 claimed the lives of at least 237,000 people.
When it comes to tit-for-tat between the world’s most powerful countries, the game is akin to playing chess using human pieces. But sources are saying the recent United States attack against Syria may have been just that. Conspiracists are claiming that the US-led attack included not only France and Britain assistance – but cooperation from…
Its name is UNU and its accuracy is startling. When asked to predict Oscar winners, it did so with 76% accuracy easily beating all critics. Last year it perfectly picked the first four of the Kentucky Derby, in order, winning a Superfecta with 540 to 1 odds. This week it hinted at something quite frightening…
On February 24, 1991, U.S. soldiers began an assault against Iraqi soldiers along a 10-mile-wide stretch of border between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, a seemingly impervious boundary that was laced with barbed wire, dangerous minefields, and fortified trenches. When reporters reached the area the day after the attack, not a single Iraqi body was to…
When the horrific details were finally revealed to the American public in 2003, it came to be known as the Chichijima Incident (or the Ogasawa Incident) when in late 1944, Japanese soldiers tortured, killed and ate eight American airmen on the Chichi Jima island leaving one sole survivor – 20-year-old Lt. George H. W. Bush…
The war was over a sliver of jungle turf – and the combatants were monkeys. The war was called The Gombe Chimpanzee War (also known as the Four-Year War) and it lasted from 1974 through 1978. Scientists had never witnessed anything like it – and have never seen anything like it since – and before the civil…
Driven by the increasing range and accuracy of firearms, camouflage designers have been researching and exploiting optical illusions since World War I and German artist Simon Menner proves that our eyes can often deceive us. Check out the photo montage below and see if you can spot the sniper hidden in each of the landscapes.