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Todd Bensman is a Middle East Forum Writing Fellow, a Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and author of Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History, the 2023 follow-up to his

That came out in the evening hours yesterday. russian-appointed officials saying that a russian-backed judge in the donetsk region, this is a russian-occupied region, is now in critical condition after there was an assassination attempt on him. this judge is significant. he was the judge who sentenced three foreigners in june to death, including two british fighters who had been here fighting with ukrainian forces. now, russian-backed officials, moscow blaming ukraine for this. ukraine not respo...

Colleagues at cia to do something. are they up for yet another covert war? >> there are a lot of ways we can go after the russians, and very frankly, you know, youre not dealing with a power that has both a strong economy and a strong political situation. russias in trouble right now, and putin understands that. i mean, if -- you know, i guess, it was john mccain that said russia is largely a gas station combined with a state, and the fact is if anything impacts on his ability to provide oil and...

Up until now you probably have never heard of before. just a few points moscow first to point wagner in ukraine when the kremlin needed to fight casualties from the public to mitigate the international repercussions of a neighbor sovereignty as a tactic with deep roots in russian history during the cold war. by using so-called volunteers moscow reduce the active-duty personnel and conceal their presence initially. the recruitment of these groups happen quickly in 2014 and the kremlin turned to p...

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Forgot. he stayed in afghanistan as a guest of religious extremists called the taliban, who took over after the soviet withdrawal. and, in his mountainous safe haven, bin laden was embolden. if a cowboy from texas and the cia could arm a bunch of islamists with guided missiles and defeat the soviet union, perhaps he could bring down the united states. with guide aircraft. for most americans, 9/11 seemed to come out of nowhere. a sucker punch, master minded by a man theyd never heard of. blow fwr...

Al Jazeera's undercover film was censored after Qatar came under pressure.

New u.s. sanctions tonight on three north korean hacking groups behind some of the most notorious sign notorious cyberattacks ever. these hackers have made billions of dollars for the -- >> reporter: the u.s. government is going after them. but experts are telling us tonight kim jong-uns army of cyberpredators will likely be undeterred. armed only with laptops and internet access, kim jong-uns legion of north korean hackers has opened up a covert war, wreaking havoc and raking in cash. tonight t...

>> you know, seth, its so interesting, the topic of your book fits in. i remember talking to dr. brzezinski a good bit and was surprised when i first started talking to him about what he was doing in the 1980s, but he would regularly talk to the cia director, bill kasie, and casey would ask for any information or any help, where should they move money to help in polands covert war against the soviet union. tell us about it. >> well, i talked to dr. brzezinski a number of times about this as well...

>> inevitably, reagans covert war became national news. >> two american congressmen who visited nicaragua today charged that theres no doubt that the federal government is deeply involved in attempts to overthrow the sandinista government. >> when seen close-up, the contras tactics were alarming. >> the contra war became quite brutal. it was a war against civilians. if there were people they thought were involved in the sandinista government, they would line them up and shoot them in front of th...