FBI gate crash, Trump meets Starmer, China stirs tensions. It’s Thursday, September 18, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

Old-fashioned barter is on the rise in Russia's foreign trade for the first time since the 1990s, as companies seeking to ...

Kyiv’s strategy to strike the Russian oil industry is “the most efficient thing Ukraine can do” to hurt Moscow's war machine. Still, it will not break the army and will not stop Moscow’s war, Russian ...

The Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow has banned the distribution of instructions teaching how to hijack and blow up vehicles. This is stated in the case file, which was reviewed by Izvestia on ...

A 20-year-old Sheridan woman made international headlines in 1931 when she drove 1,131 miles from Berlin to Moscow. She slept ...

Belarus ‘Zapad’ military drills involved practising the launch of Vladimir Putin’s nuclear weapons deployed in his country.

Ukraine launched a massive overnight drone assault on Russia on September 12, striking multiple regions including Moscow, Smolensk, and Leningrad. Russian officials admitted that 221 drones were ...

Russia revives barter trade for the first time since the 1990s, swapping goods like wheat and cars to bypass Western sanctions.

Watching the price tick higher as he filled up his car, Russian pensioner Oleg railed against the recent surge in petrol ...

On Sept. 14, 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 2 -- known informally as Lunik 2 -- became the first Earth-launched space vehicle to ...

Dryden, who died in early September after a battle with cancer, was fresh out of the Canadiens' goal crease when he joined ...

It's more than a year since Anastasiia Tsvietkova's husband went missing fighting the Russians near the eastern city of ...