Military & Security

Doug Bandow On Saturday, Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Riyadh to reassure the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states that the United States stood with them. “Nothing has changed” as a result of the nuclear pact with Iran, he insisted. Washington’s long relationship with …

Ronald Meinardus Hardly a day passes without a new “Islamist” terror attack somewhere in the world. The violence has long since metastasized from its original Near Eastern flash points to Western urban centers. The terrorists’ targets lie in Europe, Africa and also Asia, as the recent attack in …

The Black Sea Fleet is an operational-strategic command of the Russian Navy located on the Black Sea which also includes the ships harbored in the Azov Sea. The history of the fleet begins in the late 18th century in the city of Sevastopol. At that time Russia struggled …

Following intensive construction work in Rumailan old military airport in Hasakah province in the North East of Syria, including extending its runways, the airport is now ready to be turned into the first US military base on Syrian territories. The base, strategically located in the center on the …

Olivier Decottignies and Soner Cagaptay Having a permanent military foothold in the Gulf will put Turkey in an elite group of powers, but more presence also means more exposure, whether to Saudi-Iranian tensions or other local crises. In December, Ankara announced that it will establish a new military …

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Sorry, we made a mistake: The NYT’s retraction was presented as a technical error whereby the wrong pictures were mistakenly selected. “A packet of American briefing materials that was prepared for the Geneva meeting asserts that the photograph was taken in Russia. The same …

According to the US magazine National Review, Washington should accept an uncomfortable truth: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is pursuing the right strategy in Syria.  Accepting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s stance on Syria is an uncomfortable necessity that Washington should acknowledge if it wants to degrade and destroy Daesh, journalist Jay …

Neither a strong US nor a strong Europe threaten each other, however for the US, the danger is not a Europe that becomes too strong, but the one that is too weak; and it is definitely going to weaken in 2016, according to American political analyst Joseph S. …

By Oscar Nkala The Algerian Air Force has ordered 12 Sukhoi (Su-34) “Fullback” fighter bombers from Russian aircraft manufacturer Novosibirsk Aircraft Production Association to replace an aged fleet of Soviet-era MiG-25s, which are long over-due for retirement from service, as part of an ongoing force modernization program. In an …