Sudan has received an invitation to take part in a joint U.S.-Egyptian military training exercise this October in Egypt, a first for the country in almost thirty years according to the Sudanese Defense Ministry. General Emad al-Din Adawi announced the invitation to join the Bright Star exercises that will take …

The US State Department has cleared a $1.25 billion High Mobility Artillery Rocket System sale to Romania, according to a Defense Security Cooperation Agency announcement Friday. The department notified Congress Thursday and the deal is now pending congressional approval.

Newly-installed United Nations Libya envoy Ghassan Salame was in Cairo on Monday for the latest round of high-level discussions with the Egyptian leadership on resolving the Libyan crisis. Mr Salame, a former Lebanese political sciences professor based in Paris, joins a long line of previous successors hoping to stem the …