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Boeing: 6 CH-47H Chinook Helicopters for the UAE
2012-01-12 Read More...
Boeing received a U.S. Army contract valued at approximately $370 million for 14 CH-47F Chinook helicopters to support Foreign Military Sales efforts.

Iran to Hold New Naval Exercises in Strait of Hormuz
2012-01-12 Read More...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards will hold new naval exercises in the strategic Strait of Hormuz in February, the semiofficial Fars news agency

Saudi Civil Aviation Authority to Launch Islamic Bond
2012-01-12 Read More...
Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA) is starting to meet investors ahead of issuing its debut Islamic bond, or sukuk, the state news agency SPA

Iraqi Police Celebrates 90th Anniversary
2012-01-11 Read More...
Iraq’s fledgling Police Force, completely reformed after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, marked on Monday 90 years since its foundation at a time of raised sectarian tensions due to a political

Libya Eyes Merging Both National Airlines
2012-01-11 Read More...
Libya's two state-owned airlines could be merged by the first quarter of 2013, the country's Interim Transport Minister said, in a move hoped to create a major state-run carrier that could be eventually

2 Weeks to Go for Milsatcom Middle East 2012
2012-01-10 Read More...
Milsatcom Middle East, the strategic Satellite Communications for National Defense & Security event, is less than two weeks away. It will be held on 23-24 January 2012 at the Park Rotana Hotel, Abu Dhabi,

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Starts New Drills
2012-01-10 Read More...
Iran has started the major phase of a series of military exercises, codenamed "Shohaday-e Vahdat” (Martyrs of Unity), in Khaf general zone, East of Iran, Fars

Defeating the Global IED Threat Conference
2012-01-09 Read More...
Addressing a subject which has until recently been shrouded in secrecy, Tangent Link mounted this Global Counter-Improvised Explosives Device Conference with examples drawn from UK and

U.S. Lifts Ban on Defense Sales to South Sudan
2012-01-09 Read More...
President Barack Obama on Friday lifted U.S. restrictions on defense sales to South Sudan, marking another step to regularize U.S. ties with Africa's newest

Two Libyan Rebel Groups Reject Chief-of-Staff Nomination
2012-01-06 Read More...
Two powerful groups of former rebels who helped oust Muammar Qaddafi rejected the government’s choice of a new Army Chief, raising fresh security concerns in the war-torn

Taliban to Open Political Office in Qatar
2012-01-06 Read More...
The Taliban has confirmed it has come to an “initial agreement” to open a political office overseas as part of peace talks with the US, according to a

Raytheon Delivers 1st Upgraded Patriot Radar to Kuwait
2012-01-05 Read More...
Raytheon Company completed its first Configuration-3 Patriot radar upgrade for the State of Kuwait. This is the first of six radar modernization deliveries due under contract to the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile

New Chief-of-Staff for the Libyan Armed Forces
2012-01-05 Read More...
Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Chairman of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC), appointed Yousef al-Manqoush as Head of the Armed Forces in the first significant move to build a new Libyan military and warned that the country could descend into a

Lebanon to Host “Democracy in the Arab World” Conference
2012-01-05 Read More...
Lebanon will host this month a U.N. conference on “Democracy in the Arab World”, with a slew of high-level dignitaries, including U.N. Chief Ban Ki-moon, due to attend, organizers and Lebanese officials

Pentagon: “F-15 Sale to Saudi Arabia Part of a Broader Cooperation”
2012-01-04 Read More...
The recently announced $29.4 billion sale of F-15SA fighter aircraft to Saudi Arabia is just one part of a broader U.S.-Saudi military sales and defense cooperation effort that's central to regional security, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little

Iran Warns US Carrier from Returning to Gulf
2012-01-03 Read More...
Major General Ataollah Salehi, Commander of Iran's Army told the United States that a US aircraft carrier which left the area because of Iranian naval exercises should not return to the Gulf, the state news agency reported on

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