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...A US air strike on August 14 killed 13 militants of al-Shabaab “that were actively attacking Somali National Army forces in a remote location near Teedaan”, in central Somalia, the US Africa Command said...
...He too has contracted Wagner mercenaries to fight insurgents, in Mali’s case affiliated to al-Qaeda and Islamic State. France’s ambassador was expelled in 2021....
...The kingdom does not have formal relations with Israel, but covertly co-operates with the Jewish state on security and intelligence issues....
...When the Iran-Contra story finally broke late in 1986, Powell had been in Germany for less than six months, now with three stars and in command of the 75,000 strong V corps, having skipped the normal intermediary...
...In Syria, it was the necessity to prop up Bashar al-Assad to keep Russian presence on the Mediterranean and to keep Syria as a pro-Russian client-state....
...One thing.. and Putin really united people around that....
...Group 42, a state-affiliated company chaired by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the federation’s national security adviser, quickly established ventures with Chinese firm BGI, to open a coronavirus laboratory...
...Some member states, particularly those in the bloc’s north and east, are pushing for stronger defence and security links with Britain to complement US ties....
...Tribalistic, impoverished and blighted by a corrupt, weak state, it was awash with arms and a base for one of al-Qaeda’s most active branches....
...“All strategic issues between our two countries will be on the agenda, including the future presence of the United States forces in that country and how best to support an independent and sovereign Iraq,...
...In the 15 years since Case left academia, he has worked primarily in security and intelligence, including in Northern Ireland, the 2012 Olympic games and at GCHQ, and served as the private secretary to two...
...Then prime minister Haider al-Abadi made the group an official part of Iraq’s security forces....
...The United Arab Emirates, along with Saudi Arabia and Norway, have written to the UN security council about a “serious” attack on four of their tankers off the UAE coast, according to a senior official....
...That leaves Khartoum dependent on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Gulf states that have little interest in encouraging democracy....
...; and he is being challenged in second place by Hadi al-Ameri, champion of the paramilitary coalition that Iran has built into a potent power to rival the crumbling Iraqi state....
...He said “facts were conveniently discounted or ignored by mainstream media” after government outposts were attacked, and some 16 security personnel killed....
...That still leaves intact the lethal intelligence services and the militia network Iran has built for the Assads, which Moscow is trying to bring under army control....
...“It is quite significant, and frankly suspicious, that the United States chose to conduct this particular air strike at this time,” said Vitaly Churkin, Russian ambassador to the UN....
...“The raiders [Isis] have most of the weaponry possessed by the Libyan army — and better,” says Ali al-Hassi, spokesman for the Petroleum Defence Guards, a militia that backs the HoR and guards the vast refineries...
...Mojaheed, sentenced to death once, headed Al-Badr Bahini, an infamous local auxiliary unit of the Pakistani army that murdered dozens of Bengali intellectuals in the final days of Pakistani rule....
...Late last month, a video posted online appeared to show an armoured personnel carrier from a Russian army unit in battle, and Russian-language commands can be heard....
...The White House confirmed that President Barack Obama had authorised US logistical and intelligence support....
...Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s top security official and secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, was interviewed by the Financial Times in his Tehran office on December 17....
...As far as a huge command and control network, I’ve not seen that yet.”...
...We’ll renovate our military museums – from the Royal Marines and D-Day Museums in Portsmouth, to the National Army Museum, to Hooton Park aerodrome, and the former HQ of RAF Fighter Command at Bentley Priory...
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