Italy has halted the sale of thousands of missiles to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) due to their involvement in the Yemen conflict, making permanent an 18-month temporary suspension. “Today I am [ More … ]
UN experts accuse coalition partners Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as the Houthi movement, of possible war crimes Western powers and Iran are fueling the devastating war in Yemen by continuing [ More … ]
Internal Egyptian government documents show officials in Cairo scrambling to do damage control after U.S. spy agencies uncovered an alleged scheme to smuggle North Korean military cargo into the country in defiance of international sanctions, [ More … ]
French weapons are being used by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in Yemen, according to a classified note revealed by French media on Monday, April 15 which contradicts the claims of France’s government. [ More … ]
At the time warplanes affiliated to the Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar launce airstrikes in Tripoli, the deputy head of the Libyan Presidential Council, Ahmed Mitig, urged the US to put pressure on allies backing Haftar’s [ More … ]
The US administration is changing its attitude towards Egypt as a defense partner and this is forcing Sisi to seek weapons from other sources. In the US there are voices calling for a re-assessment of [ More … ]
The Trump administration has decided to halt the CIA’s covert program to equip and train certain rebel groups fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, two US officials said, a move sought by Assad [ More … ]
The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in Britain (AOHR) has called on the UK government to stop exporting arms to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) because of its role in fuelling armed conflicts in the [ More … ]
As the planned offensive of IS-held Raqqa approaches, the US is living up to its promise and providing small arms to Kurdish fighters readying for the assault. US small arms have been delivered to Kurdish [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Friday that he wants to discuss the U.S. decision to arm the PKK-affiliate People’s Protection Units (YPG) terrorists with heavy weaponry with President Donald Trump in his upcoming trip [ More … ]
The four-day International Defense Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) kicked off Sunday in Abu Dhabi with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announcing 21 deals worth more than $1.2 billion (SR4.4 billion). IDEX spokesman Brig. Gen. Rashid [ More … ]
Since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi became president after he led a military coup against Egypt’s first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi, the Egyptian military has embarked on a massive spending spree. Egypt ranked the second among [ More … ]
The renegade General Khalifa Haftar has confirmed that he is using the help of the foreign experts who are providing assistance in data analysis and military training in order to be able to carry out [ More … ]
A Libyan delegation of nine leaders from the Libyan National Army (LNA) headed by General Khalifa Haftar arrived Cairo from Tobruk. Al-Sisi is one of the major supporters of Gen. Haftar who is supported by [ More … ]
Giulio Regeni’s family strive to reach the truth about the barbaric murder of their son in Egypt on the anniversary of the January Revolution. The parents of the Ph.D. student said at the European Parliament’s [ More … ]
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