On Tuesday, Egypt was playing the role of a mediator between Israel and Palestine in order to bring truce to the region. However just five days before that tension has been escalating with both sides attacking each other. When Israel decide to launch operation “Pillar of Defense” in order to eliminate Ahmed Al-Jaabari commander of [...]
Russia has become Iraq’s second biggest arms-supplier after a document issued at a meeting between Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki, and Russian Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, showed agreed contracts worth more than $4.2 billion worth of weapons. The deals are believed to have been negotiated during the months of April, July and August when Iraq’s [...]
Iran has confirmed the presence of its ”military advisors” in Syria and neighboring Lebanon. It is really a scary thing because these aides, who are providing assistance to Assad regime and to Lebanese militant Shiite group of Hezbollah, are not ordinary consultants. They are members of Al Quds forces, an elite unit of the Iranian [...]
Three suspected members of al-Qaida have been arrested in Spain, it was officially announced in Madrid Thursday. Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz who made the announcement told reporters that two of the group members were arrested Wednesday and the third Thursday. Two of them were on a bus traveling to France when they were [...]
The Arab League has decided to take its dealings concerning the Syrian crisis to the General Assembly of the United Nations. These revelations were made by the envoy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the UN as he said that the oppression of the Syrian citizens must come to an end because according to [...]
Kenya has cancelled an agreement it signed end of May with Iran under which it was to import Iranian crude oil to cover all its needs. Kenya announced the deal cancellation to vent the sanctions the United States and the European Union have threatened to impose on countries importing crude oil from Iran and on [...]
No one in Turkey, which is a regional power and NATO member, thought that Syria would dare to shot down a Turkish military plane on a training mission. After conducting a forensic review of the sequence of events, the Turkish officials insist that the aircraft was hit in international airspace without warning after mistakenly strayed [...]
Jordanian authorities have granted asylum to the Syrian pilot who defected Thursday from the Syrian air force of Bachar Al Assad and landed his MiG-21 warplane at King Hussein military airbase in Mafraq, close to the Syrian border. The fugitive pilot was given asylum on “humanitarian grounds” because “if he returned home, his safety will [...]
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