The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Tunisia of four (4) AT-6C Wolverine Light Attack Aircraft and related equipment for an estimated cost of $325.8 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale on yesterday.
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Jordan – Artillery Command, Control and Communications (C3) Equipment
The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Jordan of up to seven hundred (700) Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS) software license copies and related equipment for an estimated cost of $300 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification …
Read More »Kabul Chaos: Afghan Election Dispute Could Spill Over Into Peace Process
Afghanistan has averted a full-blown political crisis after the two main contenders in a bitterly disputed presidential election — each claiming victory — agreed to back down from their escalating feud.
Read More »Saudi, Egypt, Bahrain to resume Qatar post services despite dispute
Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain have agreed to resume postal services to Qatar almost three years after they were stopped due to a political dispute, the United Nations said on Monday, Reuters reports.
Read More »Turkey prevents 4 Russian military aircraft from crossing into Syria
Russian daily newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported that Turkey has prevented four Russian military aircraft, including two bombers, from crossing its airspace to Syria.
Read More »The Jihadist Factor in Syria’s Idlib: A Conversation with Abu Muhammad al-Jolani
As a humanitarian disaster unfolds in Idlib, the last bastion of Syria’s Islamist rebels, the question is whether accommodation is possible between the militants and their foes. External actors should answer by gauging the insurgents’ ability to maintain calm and their sincerity about aiding civilians.
Read More »Deadly Clashes in Syria’s Idlib Show Limits of Turkey’s Options
What happened? An airstrike killed at least 33 Turkish soldiers in Idlib, in the north west of Syria, on 27 February, according to Turkish state media. The strike exacted the highest death toll upon the Turkish military in any single day’s action for more than two decades. Ankara mainly blamed …
Read More »Trump Dismisses U.S. Intelligence Reports Warning Of Russian Help In His 2020 Relection Bid
U.S. President Donald Trump has rejected reported assertions by U.S. intelligence officials that Russia was interfering in the 2020 presidential election in a bid to help his reelection campaign.
Read More »Kremlin Scrambles to Avoid Open Conflict With Turkey
The Kremlin was scrambling Friday to reach a stopgap agreement with Ankara to halt fighting in northwest Syria amid growing fears that Russia and Turkey are on the brink of open warfare.
Read More »Fighting could disrupt U.S.-Taliban truce in Afghan hinterlands
The road to Zabol province is specked with craters. Army outposts line a raw landscape of mountains and open steppe. Winds snap hard; signs warn of minefields. The Taliban has blown up most of the bridges.
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