After eight long and difficult years, Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city, can now rest easy, free of systematic rocket and mortar shelling of its residential areas by al Nusra and other terror groups. While the city itself — considered the...
It is exactly nine years since the uprising that led to the overthrow of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. While the uprising succeeded in ending Gaddafi’s tyrannical regime, there is very little to celebrate. Cases of insecurity, human rights abuses...
Much of the discussion of potential Chinese aggression focuses on their weaponry. New and faster missiles can sound scary and fast fighter jets have captured imaginations for a hundred years. Sometimes this fear might be entirely justified, or sometimes it...
For months now, the restive eastern reaches of Ukraine have known relative peace. On Tuesday, February, 18, that stability was shattered. At least one person died as fighting flared-up between government troops and Russia-backed separatist rebels. Under such febrile conditions,...
It is the end of December 2016. The Bekaa Valley is covered with snow and the men of the Lebanese army are putting their foot down on the accelerator in order to get me to the border with Syria where...
A Feb. 16 rocket attack near the American Embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad has brought renewed attention to threats by an Iran-backed paramilitary group called Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba. The militants have vowed to avenge America’s January 3 killing...
Libya has become the global epicenter for military drones, with foreign powers deploying ever-more stealthy killers and fueling a conflict that has already claimed thousands of lives, the United Nations warned on Monday. Jordan Has Now Deployed Drones To Libya...
NATO’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg recently said he was highly concerned about new Russian missile systems. His remarks came during a meeting of the 29 member states Defense Ministers in Brussels held last week. What Russian Weapons are Alarming NATO? Stoltenberg...
For a full forty years, Afghanistan has known war. First came the Soviets, whose decade-long occupation brought devastation, death and little in the way of achievement. A cataclysmic civil war followed, pitting newly mustered Taliban fighters against government troops. And...
A recent peace overture by South Sudanese President Salva Kiir is failing to convince the opposition to go down the road of ending the civil war that has been ravaging South Sudan for six years now. Kiir – under pressure...
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