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UAE & Canada Settle Aviation Row
2011-11-24 Read More...
Canada and the United Arab Emirates have put a row over aviation rights behind them, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird

Prince Salman Named Saudi Defense Minister
2011-11-08 Read More...
King Abdullah named his half-brother Prince Salman, who is Governor of Riyadh, as Saudi Arabia's Defense Minister to succeed the late Crown Prince Sultan, state television Al-Ekhbariya

Reports: Pakistan Starts Hiding its Nuclear Weapons
2011-11-07 Read More...
Pakistan has begun moving its nuclear weapons in low-security vans on congested roads to hide them from U.S. spy agencies, making the weapons more vulnerable to theft by Islamist militants, two U.S. magazines reported

Poll: Israelis Evenly Split on Striking Iran
2011-11-04 Read More...
Israelis are virtually evenly divided on whether the Jewish state should launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran, with 41% in favor and 39% opposed, a poll published on Thursday

Panetta: U.S. Army Must Reinvent Itself
2011-10-14 Read More...
The U.S. Army won’t be fighting conventional wars against columns of tanks in the future and will have to prepare for new threats from cheaper high-tech weaponry, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta

Australia Foiled 4 Terror Plots Since September 11
2011-09-09 Read More...
Australia has disrupted 4 major terror plots since the 9/11 attacks on the United States, Attorney-General Robert McClelland said as he warned of a continued threat posed by home-grown

US Air Force Secretary Discusses F-16 Deal in Iraq
2011-09-08 Read More...
US Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley was in Iraq this week for a visit that an Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman said included talks on F-16 fighter jets, which Iraq is seeking to

Iran Dispatches Submarine & Warship to Red Sea
2011-09-02 Read More...
Iran has dispatched a submarine and a warship to the Red Sea on a patrol mission, Navy Commander Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said in a report by state media earlier this

New Acting Iraqi Defense Minister
2011-08-17 Read More...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki appointed current Culture Minister Saadoun Al-Dailami as Acting Defense Minister, after 74 Iraqis got killed in a series of bomb

Kuwait Beefs Up Security at Mubarak Port
2011-08-16 Read More...
Kuwait has beefed up security around a controversial port project ahead of a visit by an Iraqi delegation for talks, a security official was quoted as saying.

Arab FMs to Urge ‘Yes’ Vote on Palestinian UN Bid
2011-08-16 Read More...
A delegation of Arab Foreign Ministers will urge permanent members of the Security Council this week to vote for Palestinian United Nations membership, a top Palestinian official

Security Council Warns of Growing Qaeda Threat in Yemen
2011-08-12 Read More...
The UN Security Council expressed concern that Al Qaeda could exploit the power vacuum in Yemen to gain an even greater foothold in the

Libya’s Rebel Leader Sacks Top Ministers
2011-08-10 Read More...
Libya’s rebel leader disbanded the entire executive branch of his de-facto government, officials said, in a bid to end a major political crisis caused by the assassination of a top rebel

Lebanon Approves Maritime Boundary Draft Law
2011-08-09 Read More...
Lebanon's lower house of parliament approved a proposed law on the demarcation of the country's maritime boundary last week, amid fears of conflict with Israel over an area potentially rich in gas.

Libya Denies Killing Claims of Qaddafi’s Son
2011-08-08 Read More...
Libya’s rebel forces on Friday said an overnight NATO strike on an operations center in the western town of Zliten has killed Muammar Qaddafi’s son Khamis and 32 others, but the claims were quickly dismissed as “dirty lies” by the Libyan

Saudi King: “True Islam is not Terrorism”
2011-07-27 Read More...
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has urged Islamic scholars to teach young people “true” Islamic principles and avoid extremism and

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