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The Russian military was conducting a joint patrol with Turkish forces along the Aleppo-Latakia Highway (M-4 Highway) in Idlib province, during the early morning hours of Tuesday, when it was attacked by militants. The Turkish or Russian Defense Ministries did not report any casualties. This is the 26th joint patrol that has been conducted in […]

Although the tenuous ceasefire continues to hold in Syria’s Idlib province, the joint patrols that have been conducted by Russian and Turkish troops have been halted, due to militant attacks.  The two sides had agreed back in March to conduct joint patrols along the strategic M4 highway. The agreement ended weeks of increased tension in […]

Several members of the United States Congress, on both sides of the aisle, have been quietly blocking U.S. arms sales to Turkey for the past two years. This bipartisan move has been in response to Turkey’s decision to buy Russian made S-400 antiaircraft missiles and to Turkey’s increasingly close relationship to Russia and President Vladimir […]

Turkey’s Senior National Representative to the U.S. Central Command’s International Coalition is sitting behind bars in Tampa, Florida after police responded to a call for a woman not breathing. According to a Military Times article, when law enforcement and Fire Rescue arrived at the apartment of Huseyin Kurtdere, a Major in the Turkish military, they […]

On Tuesday, Turkey announced that it had reserved an area in the Eastern Mediterranean where it would deploy Oruç Reis, a research/survey vessel to conduct underwater seismic surveys for natural gas or oil. At the same time, 18 Turkish warships left their anchorage and sailed near the area, where they still remain. Turkey reserved that […]

The United States Air Force will officially acquire eight F-35A Lighting II jets previously bound for Turkey, plus six more F-35A stealth aircraft in an $861.7 million dollar contract the Pentagon announced on Tuesday. This announcement comes after a year of uncertainty about what would happen to F-35s that had been earmarked for Ankara after […]

On Monday, Egypt’s parliament authorized the deployment of troops outside the country after the Egyptian president threatened military action against Turkish-backed forces in neighboring Libya. This move is likely to destabilize the oil-rich but war-torn Libya even further. The parliament unanimously approved “the deployment of members of the Egyptian armed forces on combat missions outside […]

The United States has accused the Russians of planting landmines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Libya.  The U.S. stated that Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group were planting them in support of the Libyan National Army’s (LNA) commander Khalifa Haftar. The U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), stated that they had verified photographic evidence that Wagner […]

U.S. Navy Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmembers meet with Hellenic Navy SEAL operators from the Underwater Demolition Command before transiting through various locations in international water, in the Aegean Sea near Greece on July 6, 2020.

The governments of Iran and Syria have signed a pact to strengthen military and defense cooperation. The deal was signed on Wednesday in Damascus by Iran’s armed forces chief, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, and Syrian Defense Minister, Ali Abdullah Ayyoub. Bagheri said that the military agreement is aimed at “fighting terrorism and countering American pressure.” […]

Editor’s note: This article was written by Eren Ersozoglu and originally published on Grey Dynamics.  This Grey Dynamics African Intelligence Article analyses the SADAT paramilitary group, and the political de facto implications placed on Turkish-African relations and security amid an increase in cooperation between Turkey and African states. Turkey’s private military contractor, SADAT, has been conducting military […]

A decomissioned ship breaks apart and sinks following a torpedo attack from the Type 214HN submarine PIPINOS (S121) off Karpathos island, Greece, during a SINKEX on June 24, 2020. The decomissioned vessel had been previously struck by a RIM-7 Sea Sparrow anti-ship missile, an AGM-114 Hellfire missile, and two AGM-65 Maverick missiles.  Here is video […]