The Taliban has freed Mark Frerichs, an American engineer in exchange for an Afghan tribal leader linked to the group the US had held on drugs charges since 2005. Frerichs is an engineer and U.S. Navy veteran from Lombard, Illinois, who worked in Afghanistan for a decade on development projects. He was kidnapped in February […]
On Friday, the U.S. government posted a $40,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the Malaysian defense contractor nicknamed "Fat Leonard," who disappeared weeks before being sentenced for one of the largest bribery scandals in the nation's defense contracting history. Francis pleaded guilty in 2015 to offering prostitution services, luxury hotels, cigars, gourmet […]
Qatar is a sovereign Arab emirate, located in Western Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf. A strait in the Persian Gulf separates Qatar […]
BACKGROUND: This report provides Department of Defense (DoD) contractor personnelnumbers for 3rd quarter Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) and the current status of efforts underway toimprove management of contractors accompanying United States (U.S.) Forces. It includes data onDoD contractor personnel deployed in Iraq and Syria, Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) and theU.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) area of […]
On her very first day in Antarctica, one woman was warned to aviod a certain building as NSF McMurdo Station unless [she] wanted to be raped Another was so "freaked out"by the pervassive sexual harrassment that she began carrying around a hammer.