LONDON — NATO has been quietly examining the stability of Saudi Arabia. Western diplomatic sources said NATO has been studying military and security threats to Saudi Arabia for 2014. (more…)
TEL AVIV — Israel and the United States have reported a successful ballistic missile defense test. The two countries determined the success of the latest test of the advanced (more…)
LONDON — Iran has renewed funding to a secular Palestinian militia. Palestinian sources said Iran has resumed funding to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, with offices (more…)
NICOSIA — Iran and Qatar are planning a military exercise. Officials said Iran and Qatar would conduct a naval exercise in 2014. They said the exercise would focus on (more…)
TEL AVIV — Israel’s intelligence community has determined that Hamas overcame the siege of the Gaza Strip to maintain its long-range rocket program. Officials said Military Intelligence has assessed (more…)
WASHINGTON — A leading Saudi analyst has provided details of a new Gulf Cooperation Council military. An analyst close to the Saudi leadership said the GCC was planning a (more…)
NICOSIA — The Gulf Cooperation Council has agreed to finance Lebanon’s military. Officials said Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have pledged billions of dollars for the modernization (more…)
After the unceremonious execution of her husband, Jang Song-Thaek, by his young cousin Kim Jong-Un, the widow of Jang is now dead too, possibly by suicide or a heart (more…)
The first of the six Kilo-class diesel electric submarines Vietnam has purchased from Russia arrived at the deep water naval port of Cam Ranh Bay in central Vietnam on (more…)
