Nov 20: Egypt says three militants killed, 74 arrested in Sinai raids
Nov 20: U.N. pleads for end of Yemen blockade or ‘untold thousands’ will die
Nov 20: Israeli army chief says ready to share information with Saudi Arabia
Nov 20: Details remain vague after four more US strikes against AQAP in Yemen | FDD
Nov 20: Erdogan says Turkey pulls troops out of NATO exercise, Stoltenberg apologiz
Nov 20: Syrian army, allies take back Albu Kamal from Islamic State
Nov 10: Iran’s Velayati says east Syria, Idlib to be cleared ‘soon’
President Barack Obama, defending the recent Iran nuclear deal, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), insists that his negotiators are providing an alternative to war. But the president is only referring to how the deal will defer a nuclear showdown. While that can is kicked down the road for decade, the agreement contains a […]
Hamas has fired more than 1,400 rockets into Israel, putting roughly two-thirds of the population in range, since the most recent round of violence erupted last week. Many of the variants can be traced back to the tenacious weapons smuggling efforts of Iran. When Israel’s navy seized weapons aboard the Klos-C on the Red Sea in early March, it appeared Israeli […]
Early Wednesday morning, a special operations unit of the Israeli navy conducted what appears to be a long-planned boarding operation of a Panamanian-flagged ship, the Klos-C, which was transiting the Red Sea en route to Port Sudan. Members of the Shayetet 13 commando unit (Israel’s version of the U.S. Navy’s SEAL teams) seized “numerous advanced […]
Weapons are pouring into the Middle East at an unprecedented rate. The Pentagon recently announced that it would sell six tilt-rotor Osprey aircraft to Israel for $1.3 billion, American hardware (including Apache helicopters) is being rushed to the Iraqi government to help in its battle against al Qaeda, and Washington has also restored military aid to Egypt after a brief hiatus. But Uncle […]
