MOSCOW — Russia has been developing an advanced fighter-jet that could challenge the United States in the Middle East. Russia has overseen the completion of the fifth prototype of (more…)
LONDON — The Middle East has been a testing ground for a new Western communications system. The French defense major Cassidian has been testing its fourth-generation communications network in (more…)
BACKGROUNDER Congress acts to stop Turkey’s missile deal with Chinese proliferator U.S. silent as EU seeks to rescue popular partnership with Ukraine Putin ‘liquidated’ Russia’s state media conglomerate (more…)
ABU DHABI — The Gulf Cooperation Council has organized efforts to block what members fear was an emboldened nuclear Iran. Officials said the six GCC states have been planning (more…)
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’s intelligence agency has arrested “a number of cyber activists with links to foreigners,” the Teheran Fars News Agency reported. “[The Iranian cyber activists] were (more…)
AMMAN — Conventional wisdom suggests that the United States, in adopting Iran as its new ally, has moved away from both Israel and Saudi Arabia. The U.S. challenge now (more…)
ABU DHABI — Officials said Bahrain has begun the implementation of plans to establish a center to monitor radiation levels from neighboring Iran. They said the National Center for (more…)
CAIRO — Iranian-backed Shi’ites have taken over much of northern Yemen. Officials said fighters from the Shi’ite movement called Al Houthis, after leader Abdul Malek Al Houthi, were capturing (more…)
ABU DHABI — China and Pakistan have been jointly marketing aircraft to Gulf Arab states. China and Pakistan have joined together to market military aircraft to the Gulf Cooperation (more…)
