TEL AVIV — Israel’s military has launched a multi-year plan based on enhanced intelligence and missile defense capabilities, a report said. The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Affairs asserted that (more…)
WASHINGTON — Bahrain is asking China for investments. Egypt requested satellite services from Russia. Little by little, America’s allies in the Middle East are looking elsewhere as Washington’s credibility (more…)
WASHINGTON — President Bashar Assad, struggling in his offensive against Sunni rebels, was not expected to honor any agreement to surrender Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile, a report said. The (more…)
WASHINGTON — Moscow role in the recent Syria crisis has been well reported. What is perhaps more significant is Iran’s influence in the suspension of a U.S. air campaign (more…)
JERUSALEM — Syrian President Bashar Assad, despite massive military support from Iran and Russia, has been unable to stop the Sunni revolt, a report said. The Jerusalem Center for (more…)
WASHINGTON — The U.S. intelligence community has determined that President Bashar Assad ordered his military to use chemical weapons to end a stalemate with Sunni rebels around Damascus. If (more…)
ANKARA — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, deemed the closest ally of President Barack Obama, has been moving away from the United States. Erdogan has become increasingly critical of (more…)
WASHINGTON — U.S. prosecutors, aided by Saudi Arabia, have determined that Americans were assisting an Al Qaida militia in Syria. Federal prosecutors have indicted two people on charges of (more…)
WASHINGTON — Egypt’s new military ruler envisions his country as an Islamist dictatorship, a report said. A leading U.S. analyst said Defense Minister Abdul Fatah Sisi, contrary to his (more…)
