Source: Reuters By Khalil Ashawi In a part of northern Syria that Turkey’s army helped rebels capture in 2016, the plunge in value of the Turkish lira has hit shopkeepers, medical charities and fighters paid in the currency hard. Turkey…
Source: The Atlantic By Neil Haue In Russia, journalism is far from the safest profession—even more so when the subject of investigation happens to be a private mercenary army engaged in multiple active conflicts abroad. On July 30, three Russian…
Source: Reuters By Karolina Tagaris Greek authorities have arrested two aid workers and are investigating a total of 30 from the same organization on the island of Lesbos on suspicion they smuggled migrants into Greece, spied and laundered money, police…
Source: Navy Recognition The Black Sea Fleet’s Project 11356 guided missiles frigates Admiral Grigorovich (hull number 494) and Admiral Essen (hull number 490) have made a scheduled passage from Sevastopol to the Mediterranean Sea, the Southern Military District press-service reports.eports.…
Source: Defence Blog Turkey and Russia can discuss possibilities for co-operation of jointly develop and produce a fifth-generation fighter jet, said Viktor Kladov, the International Cooperation and Regional Policy Department director at Russia’s state-run defense company, Rostec. Speaking to Anadolu…
Source: Defense News By Chirine Mouchantaf The Trump administration has in recent months been quietly working on creating a new security alliance comprised of six Gulf Arab states plus Egypt and Jordan, unofficially known as the “Arab NATO,” and also…
Source: Defence Blog Russian Defense Minister Army Sergei Shoigu announced that Russia will hold a largest military exercise in September. According to the TASS news agency, About 300,000 troops and more than 1,000 aircraft are set to take part in…
Source: Defence World Iran and Syria have signed an agreement on defense and technical cooperation during a visit by Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami to Damascus. At Damascus’ request, Tehran has been providing military advisory support to the Syrian military…
Source: CBS NEWS By Stefan Becket A new report from the UN’s nuclear watchdog expresses “grave concern” that North Korea is continuing to develop its nuclear program, despite the regime’s commitment to work towards denuclearization following June’s summit in Singapore.…
Source: Inquirer.net By Nestor Corrales The Philippines is concerned about China’s possible deployment of nuclear weapons in its outposts in the heavily disputed South China Sea. “We are concerned about the entry of any and all nuclear weapons into the…