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      Many operations during US Space Command's Global Lightning defences exercise in autumn 2024 were based in the command's joint operations centre in Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado. Photo: Space Operations Command
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      MENAJanuary 28, 2025
      Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unveils the Shahed 149 'Gaza' drone at an undisclosed location in 2021. Photo: X
      Iran’s ‘Gaza’ drone bristles with missiles in drills but can it survive in combat?

      Long-range aerial attack weapon has been compared to the US Reaper

      MENAJanuary 27, 2025
      Volunteers from the Shia Badr Brigade cheer after an exchange of fire with ISIS fighters on a front line in Anbar province in 2015. Getty Images
      Competing armed groups in Iraq’s Anbar spell trouble for Trump’s plans for Iran

      Washington has its sights on curbing a force many say answers only to Iran, but one that is deeply embedded in local economies

      MENAJanuary 27, 2025
      Screen capture of the Houthi drone as seen via the sensor of the French helicopter. EUNAVFOR ASPIDES via Navy News
      Drones get cheaper and deadlier as armies race for low-cost defences

      The US Navy highlights the soaring cost of intercepting affordable drones, which are becoming easier to produce

      MENAJanuary 23, 2025
      The destruction of Gaza.
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      Israel’s war on the devastated strip has left a mammoth challenge of reconstruction ahead

      MENAJanuary 16, 2025
      Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Reuters
      How Israel’s Momentum Plan sowed the seeds of devastation in Gaza and Lebanon

      Six years ago, Israeli military planners gathered to devise a new and destructive way to fight militants

      MENAJanuary 15, 2025
      Rescuers search for survivors after an Israeli air strike in Shmestar, a village in the Bekaa Valley, in November. AFP
      Israel resumes air raids on Syria-Lebanon arms routes

      Some weapons still reaching Hezbollah despite fall of Bashar Al Assad, security official says

      MENAJanuary 13, 2025
      Iran's army commander Maj Gen Abdolrahim Mousavi, left, and Iranian Defence Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh during an inauguration ceremony of 1,000 new drones joining the Iranian Army in Tehran, Iran. EPA
      Iran adds 1,000 long-range attack drones to fleet

      Iran has expanded its capabilities for strikes against ‘distant targets’

      MENAJanuary 13, 2025
      A Yemeni pro-government fighter on the south frontline of Marib. AFP
      War against the Houthis and Al Qaeda in Yemen has stark lessons for today's crisis

      The UAE sent elite commandos to the mountains of Yemen to fight both terror groups, securing critical parts of the country

      MENAJanuary 10, 2025
      An Iranian air defence system during the 'Aseman Velayat 99' exercise, in an unidentified location in Iran. AFP
      Iran plans to shoot down Israel's biggest bombs to defend nuclear sites

      Tehran is bracing for an Israeli strike on its nuclear programme after a major air attack in October struck radar systems and a research centre

      MENAJanuary 08, 2025
      A member of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces stands on a street in SDF-controlled Hasakah, north-eastern Syria. Reuters
      Syrian leader Al Shara meets US-backed Kurdish group amid clashes

      Interim government has called on all militias to disarm or join a new national army

      MENAJanuary 01, 2025
      The Khaled Brigade, part of Hayat Tahrir Al Sham, holds a military parade in Damascus on December 27. Reuters
      Syria's new government giving defence roles to foreign fighters

      Interim government has promised the country will not be a base for militant groups

      MENADecember 31, 2024
      Syrians celebrating the fall of the Assad regime in Umayyad Square, Damascus. Reuters
      Al Assad’s fall raises key questions over Israel’s Gaza strategy

      Experts say using raw military firepower to defeat militants creates far more problems than it solves

      MENADecember 19, 2024
      Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli air strike at the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza on December 13. Bloomberg
      How Israel shifted stance on civilian deaths in Gaza bombings

      Military used to plan strikes to limit civilian deaths but thinking changed quickly after October 7 last year

      MENADecember 18, 2024
      A massive fireball over Tartus after a weapons depot was hit by a suspected Israeli strike. Photo: Danny Makki
      Colossal explosion in Syria registers as an earthquake

      Massive blast follows attack on suspected arms depot, as Israel targets Assad-era stockpiles

      MENADecember 16, 2024
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