French Defense Minister Defends Strategy, Mali Mission
France's defense minister on Friday defended his government's new security strategy and its mission in Mali, and called for a political solution to Syria's bloody civil war.
- May. 17, 2013
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France's defense minister on Friday defended his government's new security strategy and its mission in Mali, and called for a political solution to Syria's bloody civil war.
Italy on Wednesday said the United States was transferring 200 Marines and two planes to its base at Sigonella in Sicily to deploy in Libya in case US diplomats come under attack as they did last year.
Afghanistan has slapped US-funded contractors working on reconstruction efforts with nearly $1 billion in taxes since 2008, often in spite of clear tax exemption agreements, a government watchdog has found.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged his government to pass, by close of business Monday, a 2013-2014 budget that includes some US $14.7 billion in defense spending, nearly $1 billion less than 2012 levels but $280 million more than cuts prescribed by the Israeli Treasury.
The United States has moved military forces closer to Libya since the Benghazi attack so they will be ready to respond to threats against diplomatic personnel, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.
A Russian-made Yemeni military jet ploughed into a residential district of the capital Sanaa on Monday, killing the pilot, officials said, and witnesses said it exploded in mid-air before crashing.
Vice Admiral John Miller, commander of the US Fifth Fleet, said on Sunday that a massive naval minesweeping exercise involving 41 countries was not directed at Iran.
A budding peace process between Turkey and its longtime nemesis, the Kurdish separatist militants, could shrink the prominence and budget of elite Turkish special operations units, officials and analysts agree.
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel praised the 'cooperative defense network' being constructed by the Pentagon across the Middle East as a way to keep Iran's nuclear ambitions in check.
Saudi King Abdullah has dismissed and retired air force chief Gen. Mohammed al-Ayesh by royal decree, the official SPA news agency reported Friday, without elaborating on why.
The problems that plague the Middle East, including Iran's nuclear ambitions and Syria's civil war, require 'political, not military' solutions, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday.
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