Middle East

Five systems designed to fight the Soviets first proved their combined might in the Middle East during Operation Desert Storm.

After just one week as Commander-in-Chief, Biden appears to be toying with plans to redistribute U.S. troops in the Middle East and Africa.

Israel has modified the posture of its defense forces, deployed subs, and is rapidly arming; supporting new reports of plans to strike Iran.

John Zinn was always motivated by his dreams. Some of those dreams were bigger than the Navy SEALs, but they never quite clicked for him.

The Pentagon announced the the USS Nimitz, a Navy aircraft carrier, has been ordered home despite tensions with Iran and looming threats.

The US envoy to Syria admitted to playing a ‘shell game’ with troop numbers, suggests former SecDef Esper helped hide a clandestine war.

Idlib is just one of many regions where Russia and Turkey are sparring while aggressively pushing for influence politically and militarily.

Soldiers in a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter conduct aviation operations in the Middle East supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, Oct. 5, 2020.

“We will work in partnership to further regional stability in the Middle East through normalization with additional countries,” Gantz added.

Russia’s Defense Ministry has reported that a Russian major general was killed in eastern Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province on Tuesday after the convoy he was riding in hit an improvised explosive device (IED). According to the state-owned news agency TASS, the Russian convoy was returning from what the Russian military said was a “humanitarian mission” […]

The story of foreign intelligence networks paying bounties for the killing of American troops in Afghanistan has gotten new life with a revelation that Iran paid Taliban troops to kill U.S. and coalition troops.  CNN has reported that they have identified payments linked to at least six attacks carried out by the Taliban in the […]

There was only one foreign customer for the advanced F-14 Tomcat fighter during its heyday: Iran. The Shah chose to buy 80 Tomcats instead of the F-15 Eagle — and they proved a good investment. Even after Imperial Iran gave way to the Islamic Republic of Iran after the 1979 revolution, the Iranian Air Force […]