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Israel Just Signed A Historic $15 Billion Natural Gas Deal With Jordan
Israel signed a memorandum of understanding with Jordan Wednesday, under which it will supply the Hashemite Kingdom with $15 billion worth of natural gas from its Leviathan energy field over 15...
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The US And China Are In A Race To Develop Next-Generation Hypersonic Missiles
China and the U.S. have both conducted tests of new hypersonic weapons systems over the past month. Although both tests were unsuccessful, they signal continuing military competition between the two...
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Turkey's Attempts To Cozy Up To Iran Shows That Ankara Learned Nothing From...
Taking a step back and looking at the Turkish-Iranian relationship, it strikes me that it is following a similar pattern to the one Turkey had with Syria until 2011.The Turkish relationship with Syria...
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Obama Is Having Trouble Building An International Coalition Against ISIS
Barack Obama has called for a "broad-based international coalition" to "degrade and destroy" Islamic State (ISIS) after the beheading of the American journalist Steven Sotloff.But it is not clear which...
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New US-South Korean Army Unit Will Seek To Destroy The North's Nukes In Any...
South Korea said Thursday it would create a joint military unit with the United States, as a report suggested the contingent would target North Korea's weapons of mass destruction if a full-scale...
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ISIS Surveillance Drone Is An Amateurish Remote-Controlled Quad-Copter
The drones used by ISIS militants are only remotely-controlled products you can buy online for about 500 USD rather than something comparable to real UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles).Even though some...
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Why ISIS Is A Bigger Threat Than Most People Realize
The rhetorical war over expanding direct U.S. military intervention into Syria — this time against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) — has once again reached a boiling point. And in the long...
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Russia May Still Have An Automated Nuclear Launch System Aimed Across The...
Anxiety over a nuclear exchange between super powers seems out of place in a post-Cold War world where conflicts are usually fought within states, rather than between them. But despite the changing...
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Here Are The 200 'Sky Soldiers' The US Is Sending To Military Exercises In...
The Pentagon announced Wednesday the U.S. Army will be sending 200 paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team to Ukraine. The paratroopers from the 173rd, known as "Sky Soldiers," will...
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Despite World-Wide Fears, There's A Limit To How Much Of A Threat ISIS Really...
If it wasn't so disturbing, it probably could have been entertaining.An army in 4×4 Toyota pickup trucks, managing to terrorize not only Middle Eastern Shiites, but also Western and Israeli media. If...
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Russian Rockets Are Falling Within Sight Of A Strategically Vital Ukrainian City
Pro-Moscow separatist forces, likely augmented by Russian soldiers, have began a bombardment of a major Ukrainian coastal city.Mariupol sits between pro-Russian occupied areas and the Crimean...
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Post-Conflict Bosnia Is Putin's Model In Ukraine
When Russian President Vladimir Putin looks at Ukraine, does he see Bosnia?The Balkan country, which has a tripartite presidency that reflects its ethnic balance, has remained at peace for almost two...
View ArticleEstonian President: One Of Our Counterintelligence Officers Was Abducted And...
Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves tweeted this morning that an Estonian counterintelligence officer was abducted at gunpoint and taken across the border into Russia. Breaking. Estonian...
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A Syrian Christian Businessman May Be Serving As The Assad Regime's Liaison...
For a long time, the conventional narrative about the rise of the Islamic State (IS) has been that the jihadist group owes its rise to financial support from Gulf donors.However, as it has been...
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A Predator Drone Has Reportedly Been Spotted Circling Above ISIS's Capital City
The United States appears to now be flying unarmed surveillance drones over the IS stronghold of Raqqa, Syria. The pictures thus far suggest that the drone being used is the MQ-1 Reaper.The two photos...
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The Pentagon Is Rethinking Investments In Future Technology
Pentagon procurement chief Frank Kendall will soon review the military services’ budget proposals for fiscal year 2016. Most likely, he will challenge their funding choices.Kendall said his staff has...
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IRAN OFFICIAL: Plane Full Of Americans Landed To Pay Bills And Do Paperwork
Iran ordered a commercial aircraft chartered by the U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan to land in the Islamic Republic so it could pay expenses and complete paperwork, an official there said...
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Lessons For Counter-Terrorism From Football Hooligans
Even before the Islamic State released a second gruesome video showing the murder of an American journalist, apparently voiced by a British jihadist and warning that the next victim would be British,...
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The Brutality Of ISIS Has Transformed US Foreign Policy
The beheading of two journalists has transformed public debate over U.S. foreign policy.Over the past two weeks, the American foreign-policy debate has dramatically changed. The key to understanding...
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Top Russian Diplomat Urges Negotiations On Eastern Ukraine's Status Amid...
Russia said on Tuesday it hoped that talks on the status of eastern Ukraine would start shortly between Kiev and pro-Moscow rebels."We are hoping that the talks will start quickly," Russian foreign...
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