Tehran can’t tolerate deploying militants from Syria to the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, where fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia affects Iran’s borders and may evolve into a regional conflict, President Rouhani warned. The Islamic Republic will focus on ensuring “the security of our cities and villages” that appear to be lying within reach of stray shells or rockets coming from inside the conflict zone, the Iranian president […]
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Israel Defense Minister Benny Gantz has said Turkey’s actions “pushes away from stability” in the region and argued “international pressure” must be used to “make sure they are pulling their hands from direct terrorism.” Speaking on a conference call put together by The Arab Council for Regional Integration, Gantz accused Turkey, a country Israel has a trade relationship with, of helping to destabilize the region and […]
…from SouthFront.org It would seem that one of the first rules of early 21st century regional warfare is “Bring Lots of Russian Weapons”. Starting with small arms like the AK assault rifle family, the PKM general purpose machine-gun, and naturally the RPG-7 whose reputation is such that it entered common English-language use as “rocket-propelled grenade”, and ending with the T-55 and T-72 tanks, the BMP-1 and -2 […]
The United Arab Emirates needs for Israel not only to save the Palestinians from the threat of annexation, says an Emirati expert, but also to make sure that the country’s stability is maintained and that its fate will not be similar to that of Yemen, Syria and Libya. Taking off from Tel Aviv, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will make his way to the United […]
Asif Haroon Raja Plethora of problems loaded by India India reluctantly accepted the Partition plan as a stopgap arrangement under the fond hope that it will not survive beyond six months. To make it happen, Bengal and Punjab were bifurcated, Pakistan’s share of finances and other assets withheld, nine million destitute refugees forced to migrate from East Punjab and Central India. Soon after the creation of […]
In late June, a Chinese government think tank warned of a possible military conflict due to the US military’s “unprecedented” deployment to the Asia-Pacific region. War Zone has reported about “substantial improvements” to the secretive US military base on Wake Island, described by the news outlet as “America’s remote outpost deep in the Pacific”. “The major expansions to the [Wake Island] airfield began early this year […]
By Sajjad Shaukat for Veterans Today In the past, the most developed countries had direct control on the less developed countries through colonialism. But, neo-imperialism is its most dangerous form, prevalent in the present world. In theory a less developed is free, but in practice, its government and economy are controlled by a developed country indirectly. In these terms, through its military and intelligence agency RAW, […]