US Military

Intelligence sources have revealed that the US Corps of Engineers has given a $10 million contract to Raytheon Technologies Company to detect the tunnels underneath the Egypt-Palestine border. The...

Iran has proposed a candidate for the position of vice chairmanship of the UN Disarmament Commission, a move that the US describes as "unacceptable in light of Iran's many...

Deputy spokesperson of the US Department of State Marie Harf said on Wednesday that US military aid to Israel might be affected if closures of federal institutions continue. "The...

The US government has given Egypt $584 million in military aid out of a total expected annual amount of $1.3 billion. The payment has been made by the administration...

Israeli newspaper Maariv has reported that the United States suspended an arms deal in which Washington was due to sell US-made drones to Turkey, after Turkey disclosed the names...

A US Congressional delegation from the State Foreign Operations subcommittee, headed by the majority clerk, Anne Marie Chotvacs, arrived in Cairo on Tuesday morning to discuss American aid to...

American defence secretary Chuck Hagel said on Thursday that Israel would be the first US ally to receive the American V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor military aircraft. The deal was negotiated...

On Saturday US defence secretary Chuck Hagel told the Gulf states that the US is highly committed to the security of the Middle East and that the deal with...

The National Council of the American Studies Association (ASA) has voted unanimously to endorse the academic boycott of Israel. ASA's members, which number around five thousand, will have ten...

The Israeli newspaper Maariv reported that Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been forced to halt the construction of a new IDF training academy on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem...

A spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry has announced that Moscow is opposed to the deployment of weapons to countries neighbouring Syria. Alexander Lukashevich made his comments following the...

A poll conducted in France has revealed that 64 per cent of respondents reject military intervention in Syria. Despite his vocal support for the US-proposed strike against the Assad...

French newspapers have described US President Barack Obama's last minute decision to seek Congressional approval for a potential military strike against Syria as a "trap" for his French counterpart...

Russia's Interfax news agency has quoted a military source as saying that the Russian navy is to send a missile-armed battle cruiser into the eastern Mediterranean Sea to take...

The Russian Foreign Ministry has warned of the consequences of a military strike against Syria, which could include an attack on the small nuclear reactors near the capital Damascus....

For the first time since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a large number of ships from the Russian fleet are gathering along the Syrian coast of the Mediterranean....

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that Russia and Syria are calling for the US to concentrate its efforts on holding a peace conference, urging the US...

Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth revealed that Russia has officially reprimanded Israel over the latter's launch of an Anchor ballistic missile into the eastern Mediterranean Sea last week. According to...

Watan newspaper has reported that several Turkish F-16 aircraft from the main Turkish Air Force base at Diyarbakir have flown over Urfa province on the border with Syria. It...

The Russian and French foreign ministers have agreed after their meeting in Moscow on the need to stop the bloodshed in Syria and disable Syria's chemical weapons. But the...

Russia has criticised what it called the "strange" attempts to use the agreement about the elimination of Syria's chemical weapons to obtain a resolution from the UN to use...

While France and Russia are busy engaging in last minute diplomacy to prevent a US strike against Syria, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is deploying hundreds of...

Ever since the 3 July military coup that ousted Egypt's first democratically elected government, the world has stood back to witness the Egyptian authorities' brazen attempt to cleanse an...

Of all the stupid justifications given for the American plan to bomb Syria, this week I read the stupidest one yet in a Guardian column. Probably the most common...

Perhaps understandably, the US is secretive about its drone programme. But over the last decade, thousands of unmanned drones have been deployed in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia as part...

The fall of the Soviet Union pleased America immensely, but the return of its ghost in Russia as a major player on the international stage is a concern. Post-Cold...

In a matter of days, US President Barak Obama will seek authorisation from Congress to begin airstrikes against Syria. The members of Congress are being asked to approve "limited"...

On the heels of the British parliament's refusal to sanction a military attack on Syria, US President Barack Obama drove the issue of a possible intervention to a dead-end...

Part I The Turkish military has often been compared and contrasted in scholarly writing with its counterparts either in Western Europe or in Latin America. Secular-minded Turkish scholars scorn...

If President Barack Obama has disappointed the Syrian opposition by seeking congressional approval for an attack on Syria, he did the same to America's allies in the Middle East....

Debates have taken place around the world about the crimes committed in Syria, the most worrying of which was the death and injury of thousands due to the use...

US Secretary of State John Kerry is prepared to say anything in order to rally support for Barack Obama's plans for a military attack against Syria, including outright lies....