The Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) is investigating whether the two gunmen who attacked a celebration for Hanukkah last night at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Naveed Akram, 24, and his father Sajid Akram, 50, had ties to the Islamic State (ISIS), with an IS Flag being found in the pair’s car located near Bondi. According to ABC, Naveed Akram, who remains hospitalized in critical condition, was known to and previously investigated by the ASIO for possible ties to ISIS terror cell operating within Australia in 2019, soon after the arrest of the terrorist Isaac El Matari, who was planning an attack on behalf of the IS in Sydney.

American film director Rob Reiner, 78, known for many iconic films including The Wolf of Wall Street, and his wife Michele Singer, 68, have been found dead as a result of several knife wounds at their home in Los Angeles, California, according to TMZ.

Providence Police announce they will be releasing 24-year-old Army veteran Benjamin Erickson from custody and that he is no longer a “person of interest” in last night’s shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island.

Following the announcement moments ago from Providence Police, I have deleted my post from earlier citing CNN which identified and showed a photo of Benjamin Erickson as the “person of interest” in yesterday’s shooting at Brown University.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are scheduled to provide a classified brief to the Senate on Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. regarding the ongoing military buildup and activity in the Southern Caribbean, as support grows for a potential War Powers Resolution against the Trump Administration in Congress, according to Punchbowl News.

The White House sent an angry message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this weekend following an airstrike Saturday on the Gaza Strip which targeted and eliminated Ra'ad Sa'ad, a senior commander in Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades, accusing Israel of violating the ceasefire and not informing the United States prior to the strike through the Civil Military Coordination Center (CMCC), according to Israeli officials who spoke to Axios.

Footage has been released by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) showing a first-of-its-kind underwater drone attack against the Russian port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea using “Sea Baby” Unmanned Surface Vehicles, with at least one striking and causing significant damage to a Kilo-class diesel-electric attack submarine with the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet.

President Donald J. Trump’s first statement since the brutal stabbing murder yesterday of American director and actor Rob Reiner and his wife Michele at their home in Los Angeles, California. Wow, just wow…an absolutely psychotic and demented post by Trump.

Two Soldiers that were killed in a ISIS-affiliated attack on Saturday in Central Syria have been identified as Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres Tovar, 25, of Des Moines and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, both serving with 1st Squadron, 113th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division of the Iowa National Guard currently deployed to the Middle East.

The Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago has released a statement today reaffirming its sustained cooperation with the United States, which it states it has benefited from through joint military training exercises, enhanced surveillance capabilities, and the installation of an effective radar system, with approval having been granted for U.S. military aircraft to transit airports in the coming weeks across Trinidad and Tobago.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump signs an Executive Order in the Oval Office formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, with almost all illicit fentanyl which enters the United States being produced in and trafficked via Mexico and China.

Video footage shows a forty-meter-tall replica of the Statue of Liberty, located across from a McDonald's within the parking lot of a Havan in the Brazilian city of Guaíba, one of several dozen replicas of the statue located throughout the country, collapsing during a wind and rain storm today which swept across Southern Brazil.

U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) has announced and published footage of several strikes carried out earlier today, December 15, by military forces under Joint Task Force-Southern Spear (JTF-SS), against three alleged narco-trafficking vessels operating within international waters in the Eastern Pacific. According to SOUTHCOM, the vessels were transiting along a known narco-trafficking route and carrying illicit narcotics, with a total of eight males killed as a result of the strikes, three in the first vessel, two in the second, and three in the third, all suspected to have been members of a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO).

According to an exclusive report published by The Washington Post, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, along with other senior officials at the Pentagon, are preparing a major plan to present to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the coming day, which would see the downgrade of several of the U.S. Armed Force’s Unified Combatant Commands and a shift in the balance of power among its top generals, as part of a consolidation previously sought by Hegseth and other members of the Trump Administration.

If adopted, the plan would usher in some of the most significant changes at the military’s highest ranks in decades, which would include reducing in prominence the Headquarters of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), U.S. European Command (EUCOM), and U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), by placing them under the control of a new organization known as U.S. International Command (INTERCOM). In addition, the plan also calls for realigning U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) and U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM), which oversee military operations throughout the Western Hemisphere, under a Combatant Command to be known as U.S. Americas Command (AMERICOM).

Traders on Polymarket do not appear confident that renewed hostilities between Thailand and Cambodia will cease by the end of the month, with only a 36% chance of a ceasefire between the two countries by December 31, 2025. This is despite President Trump claiming last week that the the Prime Minister of Thailand and Cambodia had agreed to an “immediate halt in the fighting,” a halt which has so far not materialized, as skirmishes continue along the Thai-Cambodian Border.