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Ukraine has successfully stalked the Iraqi defence market for decades, cutting sanction-busting deals with Saddam Hussein and later leveraging its role as a post-Saddam contributor of forces to the ‘Coalition of the Willing’. The pay-off has been handsome.

UAE joint defence committee with US; Mayall tour of UAE and Yemen; Yemeni coastguard base on Miyoun Island

President Ali Abdullah Saleh has returned to Sanaa after visits to Egypt and Russia. Following talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Saleh travelled to Moscow to meet senior Russian officials and attend an international exhibition on technology and equipment. Saleh is thought to have discussed Yemen’s bilateral debt

With the 31 August deadline looming for the withdrawal of US combat forces in Iraq, GSN has visited locations across the country to conduct a wide-ranging assessment of the security situation and the likely impact of withdrawal. We asked what the drawdown would mean on the ground and whether the Iraqi Security Forces will cope.

Many parts of Iraq are already operating in a post-US mode, and some have done so for years, as the above observations reveal. In Basra, security is well organised,

Across Iraq the Iraqi Security Forces are less motivated by a need to defeat the remaining cadre of militants. There is a pervasive sense that the security issue is mostly under control and that (in most places) the insurgents are finished and do not

The Obama presidency has acted decisively to remove a dissenting voice from the top military team, opening the way for a further reshuffle of US generals, but not necessarily a change of tack on the operational front in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Gulf

GSN will explore the texts in more detail in a future edition, but some quotes are worth highlighting now. In particular, Hegghammer provides a succinct summation of the failure of Al-Qaeda in the

A new head will have to be appointed to US Central Command (Centcom). In the interim, deputy Centcom commander and US Marine Corps Lieutenant General John Allen will serve as acting

Ursula Brennan’s Riyadh visit, Military delegation in Yemen, Border controls

Gulf Co-operation Council states have long been the focus of efforts by US administrations and their regional military structure Central Command (Centcom) to enforce the Pax Americana. But with some GCC allies already feeling distanced from high-level contacts in Washington, the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal as head of US Forces and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, and his replacement by Centcom commander General David Petraeus, threatens to leave them feeling even more distanced from the US civil-military relationship.

The recruitment and fundraising activities of Hayla Al-Qusayir, who was captured with 113 AQAP members in March, has highlighted the vital work of women in supporting terrorist cells

There is always something new and surprising to learn about militancy in Saudi Arabia, and Al-Qaeda’s pledge to kidnap royals and foreigners has revealed interesting features of the evolving threat

In early June, California Strategies asked US attorney general Eric Holder to investigate what the firm believes is a case of computer hacking. The company believes hackers had accessed sensitive files relating

King Abdullah has appointed Major General Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al-Ayish as commander