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By Shehab al-Makahleh and Giorgio Cafiero The Red Sea has historically connected traders from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Today the strategically valuable body of water is vital to Sino-European trade. In recent years, several countries have established military footholds along the saltwater inlet’s African shore. …
January, 2018
April, 2017
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20 April
America, China and North Korea Show Off Military Hardware Near the Korean Peninsula
Is it the military-industrial complex version of The Apprentice or a march to war? By Adam Garrie • War may or may not be approaching in North Korea, but what is a certainty is that the region has become a kind of military testing ground where the US, China …
March, 2017
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22 March
Does Turkey Want to Build a New Syrian Army?
Last month Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan once again suggested that a new national Syrian army should be created, adding that the Free Syrian Army (FSA) could form part of such an army. Turkey has influence over at least 2,000 FSA fighters in northwest Syria, which it uses as an allied proxy …
December, 2016
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23 December
Cops of the Pacific? U.S. military’s role in Asia during the age of Donald Trump
Trump walks in during Pentagon’s preparations for a future U.S.-Japan-South Korean triangular military alliance Despite the attention being given to America’s roiling wars and conflicts in the Greater Middle East, crucial decisions about the global role of U.S. military power may be made in a region where, as …
November, 2016
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6 November
Hold on, Damascus, Chinese Cavalry is Coming
A recent chain of events in the Middle East has resulted in China becoming actively engaged in the settlement of the Syrian conflict. The primarily reason behind this development is the ever increasing activity of Uighur terrorists from the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), which, according to a report …
October, 2016
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20 October
Russia-Armenia Joint Air Defense Reinforcement in South Caucasus
In view of the enhanced NATO’s activity to expand its military presence on the Eastern European block, Russia embarks on the strategy of increasing its military buildup in the South Caucasus with the key air defense units to be deployed on the Armenian soil – Russia’s ally in …
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13 October
Russia Won’t Flinch in Syria
The US is said to be mulling military options in Syria amid deadlock at the Security Council, but that would mean lighting the fuse for World War III The UN Security Council meeting on Syria called over the weekend was bound to end in mutual recrimination between the US …
May, 2016
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31 May
The Chaos in Iraq part of a Grander Western Strategy of a Fractured and Divided Middle East
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL/ISIS is a covert western army designed to carve out a Sunni mini-state in a chaotic Middle East, which is to be fractured along artificial sectarian and ethnic lines. Iraq has been plunged into a further state of chaos over …
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