The IRGC has gotten rich, even amid international sanctions that crippled much of the Islamic republic’s economy. When the sanctions are lifted, presumably after the completion of the recent (more…)
Despite CCP leaders’ focused efforts to woo Turkey closer to China’s geopolitical orbit, there have been problems. Beijing has promised huge economic investment and sales of air defense system (more…)
What army will stop Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL)? Syrian forces, even those backed by Iranian-supplied Hizbullah, have fallen like flies. Iraq’s troops, trained by the U.S., (more…)
The U.S. Defense Department is aiming to have a space-war operations center up and running within six months. SUBSCRIBE l LOGIN (more…)
Elected as Egypt’s 6th president in June 2014, Abdul Fatah Sisi has done in one year what his predecessors would not do for 40 — to build and project (more…)
Since David Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel a state in 1948, Mossad has been led by 11 different men, six career spies and five army generals. As current chief Tamir Pardo (more…)
With the jihadist juggernaut pressing a weakened Syrian military from several fronts, President Bashar Assad will look to staunch ally Iran to maintain his grip on power. Sources say (more…)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was said to be advancing in his effort to turn NATO’s second largest fighting force into what critics say is his private army. SUBSCRIBE (more…)
Writing in the London Review of Books, Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, claims the narrative spun by the Obama administration about the events leading up to the killing (more…)
