Putin Poised to Disrupt Trump’s Plans with a New Four-Pronged Middle East Pact
President Vladimir Putin immersed himself this week in putting together a pact between Russia, Syria, Iran and Iraq to forestall
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Egypt
Egypt Stays Aloof from US-Arab Coalition, Opts for Independent Sea-Air Arm
Barring a last-minute change, Egypt’s President Abdul-Fatteh El-Sisi will not attend the forthcoming Riyadh summit on May 22, or join
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US, Russia Ratchet up Mid-East Military Cooperation
Unheeding of the investigation into his alleged associations with Moscow, President Donald Trump has added another notch to US military
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Another Russian Air Base is Going up at Sidi Barrani, Egypt
Angry denials from Moscow and Cairo greeted reports of Russian special operations forces landing Tuesday, March 14, at the Egyptian
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UAE in Empire-Building Mode, Sets up New Base in Somalia
After setting up a naval-air base in the Eritrean port of Assab in late 2016, the United Arab Emirate, joined
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Emirates Broker Saudi-Egyptian Rift, Harness Cairo to Gulf Security
The Gulf emirates are bending every effort toward patching up the quarrel marring relations between King Salman of Saudi Arabia
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Hamas Itself under Suicide Terror Threat from…. ISIS Sinai
What happens when a radical Islamist terrorist organization is threatened with suicide terror by a bigger fish of the same
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In Jordan, ISIS Is Using Terror for a Territorial Grab of the South
By its onslaught on the Crusader castle town of Karak in the southern Jordan, Sunday, Dec. 18, the Islamic State
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UAE Acquires an Eastern Libyan Air Base Shared with France
The enigmatic Libyan general Khalifa Belqasim Haftar, who commands a private army called “Operation Dignity” based in the eastern town
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Russia Beats Sanctions, Obtains French Helicopter Carriers for $1
Politics has a way of distorting the strategic calculus behind military decisions and such distortions often lead to misapprehensions. This
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