Eurasia

The UAE’s cabinet last month approved the establishment of an embassy in Tel Aviv. Dubai’s ruler and The United Arab Emirates’ Vice President Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has sworn in the country’s first ambassador to Israel, Mohammed Mahmoud Al-Khaja, the Dubai Media Office said on Sunday.

“Vered Hagalil” drill focused on improving the IAF’s readiness for combat in the North. The IAF is conducting a training exercise to prepare for the possibility of war in the North, the IDF announced Monday.

Within a 24-hour period, Turkey’s ruling party and its supporters managed to, first, admit they botched a deadly raid in northern Iraq, blamed “terrorists” for killing people harmed in the raid, and then moved the target to attack domestic political opponents. Turkey’s AK Party, which has been in power almost …

The operation was carried out by the National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing in the ministry, the Shin Bet and the Customs Authority. The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and Defense Ministry on Monday said they have blocked the transfer of more than $100,000 worth of Turkish merchandise and money …

The Arab Coalition intercepted and destroyed an explosive-laden drone fired by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis towards Saudi Arabia, state news agency SPA reported early on Monday. The Coalition Spokesperson Colonel Turki al-Maliki said the drone was the latest in a series of attempts by the Houthi militias to “target civilians and …

Turkey has confirmed that its troop presence in Libya will remain in place pending Libyan government approval and the status of the 2019 Ankara-Tripoli bilateral military agreement. Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin confirmed the decision in an interview with state broadcaster TRT.

Israel’s military has for the past decade repeatedly attacked Iranian targets in Syria, conducting hundreds of air raids against military bases, missile production sites and training facilities.

Iran and Russia to hold a joint naval drill in northern part of the Indian Ocean in the “near future.” Iran’s army test fired a sophisticated short-range missile on Sunday, state media reported.

The extremist group was supposed to have lost its last scrap of territory in Syria in March 2019, but in recent months it has ramped up attacks against regime forces, especially in the east of the country bordering Iraq. US forces in Syria are focused on fighting the remnants of …

Israel fired several missiles early on Monday targeting areas near the Syrian capital, Damascus, Syria’s state news agency reported. An opposition war-monitoring group said the strikes killed six Iran-backed fighters.