An Egyptian court has sentenced Christian researcher Aughustinos Samaan to five years of hard labor under Egypt’s blasphemy law, following months of pretrial detention. Samaan, who runs a YouTube channel...
While Chinese fighter jets split Egypt’s skies in May, it was American armor that shook its sands earlier this month. Bright Star 25, one of the world’s largest multinational military...
Iran still seeks to project power in the Middle East — not only by arming proxies and smuggling oil but also by shaping regional parliaments and policies. Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s new Supreme...
When Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrived in Cairo on July 9, Beijing framed the visit as a routine bilateral engagement meant to advance its Belt and Road Initiative. The optics were modest: handshakes, vague...
Hopes of a better US-Egyptian relationship may have just been blown away by the afterburners of Chinese J-10 fighters. Cairo’s participation in an 18-day combined air exercise with Beijing...
Preventing CCP Aggression on Taiwan
The U.S. decision to grant Egypt its full allotment of $1.3 billion in military aid, despite Egypt’s ongoing human rights abuses, represents a troubling circumvention of U.S. law. Of this sum, $320...
"At [a] time when some of our adversaries aim to undermine our ties with our greatest ally, we only further strengthen our alliance,” Israel’s Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant said of signing the $3 billion deal.
Ukraine could double its annual production of drones if it had more funding, a Ukrainian official told The Guardian in an interview published on Wednesday. In addition to encouraging our European allies...
The White House submitted a $105 billion supplemental spending package to Congress on Friday. The proposal seeks to help three beleaguered democracies — Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan —...
The Biden administration’s Lebanon policy ends up propping up the very order it claims to oppose.
The United States Department of Defense (DOD), with the support of both Congress and the U.S. defense industrial base, has built the preeminent military force in the world. The United States has unmatched power projection capability, the ability to establish air and maritime dominance far from its shores, the resources to execute large scale ground maneuver operations, and the ability to conduct brigade-level amphibious operations. But despite all this, the United States will not be ready to deter and defeat America’s most capable adversary — China — in the demanding military environment the United States will face in the next few years in the western Pacific.
The U.S. Senate voted 83-11 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2023 after the U.S. House of Representatives advanced the same legislation in a resounding 350-80...
The Biden administration announced on Friday a decision to lift the decades-old arms embargo on Cyprus for the coming fiscal year. This laudable step recognizes Nicosia’s progress related to financial...
Albania, a NATO member state, cut diplomatic ties with Iran earlier this month after blaming Tehran for a cyberattack against Albanian government networks. It is an unprecedented response to a cyberattack...
The Obama-Biden doctrine means that our Mideast allies don’t have to like the Iran deal. They just have to pay for it.