A former Special Forces soldier and two former Green Beret buddies took a chartered flight from Miami on a plane owned by a Venezuelan businessman now at the center of multiple investigations.
Former Green Beret Jordan Goudreau pitched a $750 million paramilitary operation requiring several aircraft, armored vehicles, hundreds of M4 carbines and 300 "soldiers," a former business associate said.
Venezuelan security forces arrested eight people, including two alleged U.S. citizens, following a beach invasion aimed at capturing socialist President Nicolás Maduro, according to information released Monday by authorities, as more than 25,000 troops mobilized to hunt for other rebels operating in the country.
The top U.S. military commander for Latin America said Friday that the Trump administration isn’t looking to use military force to remove Nicolas Maduro even as it expands counternarcotics operations in the Caribbean.
U.S. and Afghan forces were pulled into a nearly nine to 10 hour firefight after a suicide bombing targeted a medical facility that was under construction near the base, a source on the ground detailed to Military Times.