Talk of war in the Middle East abounds on social media, but not just about the one with Iran. A small, but significant, ...

The SADAT International Defense Consultancy has grown into a key instrument of Turkish influence in Africa and the Middle ...

Syrian forces have arrested Uzbek fighters during a security sweep in the northwest, after a dispute involving one of them escalated into protests outside a government security ​facility, two Syrian ...

A peace initiative to end a decades-long conflict with Kurdish militants has been effectively "frozen" by the Turkish ...

Press freedom remains essential to verified reporting, public accountability, and the ability of journalists to challenge censorship, intimidation, and violence. World Press Freed ...

Cairo: The growing rapprochement between Egypt and Türkiye is raising concern in Israel, particularly as military cooperation expands through joint training and exercises between two of the region’s ...

It is hard to overstate the sense of shock reverberating across West Africa after attackers, in co-ordinated assaults, managed to enter Mali's capital, Bamako, assassinate the def ...

QAMISHLI, Syria — The former dividing line between Syrian government territory and Syrian Kurdish forces — a landmark previously approached with caution in this north eastern city — is now a busy ...

This is the second part of the analysis of the deployment of Russian bases around the world. You can find the first part here. The Russian military presence in Kyrgyzstan is not large. There are ...

Tayfun 4 hypersonic missile design on display at IDEF 2025. (Agnes Helou/Breaking Defense) BEIRUT — Turkish missile producer Roketsan has opened new production facilities as the first part of an ...

A gunfight with police outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, left one attacker dead, two others injured and two police officers sustaining minor injuries. The armed attackers had ties to ...

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs, on April 5, 2026. © Ibrahim Amro, AFP Israeli airstrikes on Beirut and southern ...