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Amidst Regional Changes, Middle East Arms Bazaar Remains Open
While the news coming out of the Middle East over the past year has focused upon the percolations of restless societies, two aspects remain consistent amidst the region’s sea of political unrest: strong levels of investment in security forces and the appetite for defense-related acquisitions. The market for arms sales in the Middle East continues [...]
Russia Says UN Resolution on Syria Risks Civil War
Russia is warning that a Western and Arab effort to push the U.N. Security Council into adopting a resolution on Syria will put that nation on a path to civil war. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said Tuesday the Western and Arab-backed draft resolution will not achieve a compromise in the 10-month long rebellion [...]
NATO not mulling intervention in Iran, Syria: top commander
NATO is not considering any involvement in Syria or Iran, the alliance’s top commander in Europe said on Tuesday, after Russian claims that such plans were afoot. “In terms of Syria, I can tell you from a NATO perspective, we are not conducting any planning, we are not doing any detailed analysis, we are simply [...]
US to press Russia on reported Syria jet deal
A senior US diplomat visiting Russia will press Moscow on a reported deal to sell Syria fighter jets, something Washington described as “quite concerning,” the State Department said. Jeffrey Feltman, the top US diplomat for the Middle East, was in Moscow on Monday and Syria was “issue number one on his agenda,” US State Department [...]
The Saudi-Iranian Rivalry and the Future of Middle East Security
Saudi Arabia and Iran have often behaved as serious rivals for influence in the Middle East and especially the Gulf area since at least Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution and the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War. While both nations define themselves as Islamic, the differences between their foreign policies could hardly be more dramatic. In most respects, Saudi [...]
NATO not even thinking of Syria operation: top general
NATO is not planning or even “thinking” of intervening in Syria, the alliance’s most senior officer said Thursday, days after a top Russian official said such plans were in the making. “There is no planning and we are not thinking about an intervention,” General Knud Bartels, head of NATO’s Military Committee, told a news conference [...]
Snipers still threaten Syrian lives: Arab League
The Arab League chief said on Monday that snipers remain a threat to civilian lives in Syria and called for the shootings to end, as activists heaped criticism on the bloc’s observer mission. But Nabil al-Arabi defended the monitors in his first remarks since they were deployed in Syria a week ago, saying the “mission [...]
Syrian air force, navy on manoeuvres against aggression
The Syrian navy and air force conducted live-fire manoeuvres on Tuesday to test their preparedness to repulse “any aggression against the homeland,” the official SANA news agency reported. “The air force and air defences conducted manoeuvres with live ammunition… with a view to testing the combat capabilities of the air forces and to test their [...]
Russia to send warships to Syria in 2012: report
Russia will send a flotilla of warships led by its only aircraft carrier to its naval base in Syria for a port call next year amid tensions with the West over the Syrian crisis, a report said Monday. The ships, headed by the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, will dock at the little-utilized Russian base in [...]
