Middle East & Africa

UAE
Drones against Iran

The United Arab Emirates is the first Arab state to have its own military drones.

Subscribers only 27.02.2013

Syria
"General Shateri's" hidden role

Iranian Hassan Shateri, who was killed in an attack on the road linking Damascus to Beirut at the beginning of February, was a military coordinator in southern Lebanon.

Free access 27.02.2013

Syria
Syrian Kurds do u-turn

After fighting alongside the Syrian Army since the start of the Syrian crisis, the Yekineyen Parastina Gel (YPG), the armed [...]

Subscribers only Defence 27.02.2013

Lebanon
Syrian jihadists stir panic

The growing number of Sunni radicals in Lebanon has raised the spectre of clashes with the pro-Syrian Hezbollah.

Subscribers only Defence 13.02.2013

Saudi Arabia
Abdullah paves way for Muteb

In appointing his younger half-brother Muqrin to the honorary post of vice prime minister in January 31, Saudi Arabia's King [...]

Subscribers only Agencies 13.02.2013

UAE
DigitalGlobe pulls satellite surprise

The race to equip the United Arab Emirates with an observation satellite has stalled over past six months (IOL 669, [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intel 13.02.2013

Israel
Yair Shamir, Dassault's Israeli lobbyist

Yair Shamir, who is a candidate to be Israel's next defence minister, heads a venture capital fund in which France's Dassault has invested.

Subscribers only 13.02.2013

Israel
Barack Obama

Barack Obama will not only visit Israel and the Gaza [...]

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Kuwait, United Kingdom
David Howell

David Howell, who was a Foreign Office minister from May [...]

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France, UAE
Luc Vigneron

Luc Vigneron, the former CEO of Thales, is rumoured in [...]

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Turkey
Hakan Fidan

Hakan Fidan, the director of the Milli Istihbarat Teskilati (MIT), [...]

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Iraq
Shi’ites establish their own version of Hezbollah

Iraqi Shi’ite leaders, backed by Iran, have fostered the establishment [...]

Subscribers only Defence 13.02.2013

Saudi Arabia
Muteb works on image

Being groomed to succeed his father (see in the same [...]

Subscribers only Defence 13.02.2013

Saudi Arabia, United States
State department cultivates Riyadh nuclear ties

At the Nuclear Fuel Supply Forum on January 31, Carol [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intel 13.02.2013

Lebanon
Training Special Forces

Jean Kahwagi, the commander in chief of the Lebanese Army, will visit France from January 30 to February 2. As [...]