Saudi Arabia investing in domestic defense industry Saudi Arabia has in recent months stepped up its plans to increase indigenous military production, in an effort to reduce the heavy reliance on defence imports it has Read More
Egypt signs military deal with South Korea Egypt and South Korea announced in early February a $1.66 billion deal to sell K9 self-propelled howitzers to the Egyptian armed forces and to locally manufacture them in the Read More
UAE backs out of F35 program The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday suspended talks on a $23 billion deal to purchase American-made F-35 jets, armed drones and other equipment, in a rare dispute between Washington and Read More
UAE’s Chinese project Construction at a suspected “secret” Chinese military facility in the UAEwas stopped at Washington’s request, a report by The Wall Street Journal revealed on Friday. “The UAE has never had Read More
Russia looking to enhance ties with Egypt Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had a phone call on Monday where they touched upon several topics, including means of boosting Egyptian-Russian relations, Read More
US to sell arms to Saudi Arabia The U.S. State Department approved its first major arms sale to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under U.S. President Joe Biden with the sale of 280 air-to-air Read More
Possibility of US aid to Afghanistan The U.S. has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghanistan on the brink of an economic disaster, while refusing to give political recognition to the Read More
MBZ meets Macron French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday held talks with the crown prince of the UAE’s Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed, one of Paris’ closest allies in the Middle East region. The Read More
Taliban takes key provincial capitals The Taliban has continued to advance on urban centres in Afghanistan after capturing smaller administrative districts in the past weeks, claiming to have taken over a sixth provincial capital in Read More
Qatar FM in Iran just days after US visit Qatar’s foreign minister traveled to Iran for unpublicized talks, having earlier offered to broker dialogue between the Islamic Republic and its Arab neighbors in the Read More
