Starting from fiscal year 2017, Japan will gradually deploy about 2 dozen F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, according to a June 25 announcement by the Japanese Defense Ministry. The F-35s (more…)
JERUSALEM — Syria has been expelling much of its majority Sunni community, a report said. The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs asserted that the regime of President Bashar Assad (more…)
LONDON — Iran is said to have secretly supplied Russian-origin fighter-jets to Iraq. The International Institute of Strategic Studies asserted that the latest delivery of Su-25 ground attack aircraft (more…)
NICOSIA — Iran has reported the enhancement of one of its earliest unmanned aerial vehicles. The Iranian Defense Ministry said it oversaw the modernization of the Ababil UAV. The (more…)
CAIRO — Syrian fighters for Al Qaida have been preparing to return to North Africa to destabilize pro-Western governments. Analysts and media reports asserted that Al Qaida has sought (more…)
WASHINGTON — The Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah has been waging an unmanned aerial vehicle war against Israel, a report said. Public Interest Report asserted that Hizbullah was using UAVs to penetrate (more…)
ABU DHABI — Kuwait has acknowledged a cyber warfare campaign on its energy sector. Kuwait’s state-owned Petrochemical Industries Co. reported 100,000 cyber attacks on the company’s networks during a (more…)
ABU DHABI — Kuwait has been undergoing rising unrest amid a crackdown on the Islamist opposition. Security forces have been deployed to stop the resumption of Islamist opposition rallies (more…)
LONDON — Qatar has been preparing for the first Japanese military export in nearly 70 years. The Japanese daiy Nikkei reported that Qatar would receive electronic components for a (more…)
