BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:00 A.M.) - The Moroccan Air Force has requested to purchase 12 Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 drones, which are considered one of the most advanced unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in the world, the website Manadefense reported over the weekend. Meanwhile, Hespress reported that "Morocco is moving towards acquiring more combat drones, as the Royal Armed...

The deputy commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, Mohammad Hussein-Zada Hejazi, died of a heart attack on Sunday, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps announced in a statement. 65-year-old Hejazi, who served at the rank of Brigadier General, was a direct subordinate of Iran's General Qasem Soleimani until the latter's death early last year in a...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:10 A.M.) - On Sunday, the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia announced that it had intercepted and destroyed an armed drone inside Yemeni airspace, which was launched by the Houthi forces toward the Kingdom. In a statement carried by Al-Watan newspaper, the coalition said that the Houthi forces' attempts are systematic and deliberate...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:00 A.M.) - On Sunday, the Israeli Ministry of Defense announced that it had signed the biggest deal weapons deal with Greece. According to the Jerusalem Post newspaper, Israel and Greece signed the largest defense procurement agreement on Sunday, as the Hellenic Air Force signed an agreement with the Israeli company Elbit Systems, who...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:30 A.M.) - The Russian Veste channel published a video showing the use of the Russian Lancet suicide drone against militants in Syria. The drone, which has been used in Syria for several years, has been the go-to unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for the Russian Armed Forces against the militants. The Veste channel's video...

The former head of Israeli military intelligence, Gen. Amos Yadlin, shared in an interview with CNBC News on Saturday that stopping Iran's nuclear program will be much harder than earlier efforts taken against Iraq and Syria. According to Yadlin, Iran's nuclear program is "much more fortified and dispersed", while its neighbors' nuclear facilities were located in...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:00 A.M.) - The commander of the Iranian Air Force, Brigadier General Yousef Qorbani, revealed that his forces have the largest fleet of helicopters in the Middle East region. According to statements carried by the state-owned Fars News Agency, Qorbani said: "Today we have the largest helicopter fleet in the Middle East," noting that...

According to a Norwegian government report, the country managed to achieve only one goal in Afghanistan, namely being a good ally of the US. After the US announcement to pull back its troops from Afghanistan, its Scandinavian allies Norway and Denmark have decided to follow suit. "We will begin the withdrawal of Norwegian forces on 1...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:20 A.M.) - The website of the Yemeni Ministry of Defense said on Saturday that "the National Army forces launched an attack on the Houthi station sites at the Maqabneh front, west of Taiz, during which they managed to liberate Tibbah al-Sheki and the village of Zubaida." According to their report, "the confrontations resulted...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:20 P.M.) - Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei called on the Iranian army to raise its readiness to the required level and play an influential role in performing the tasks. Fars News Agency reported that Khamenei's call came "on the occasion of the Day of the Islamic Republic's Army and the heroic epics made...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:00 P.M.) - Private sources revealed to Sputnik Arabic about the establishment of an operations room (Russian, Iranian, Syrian) with the aim of securing a safe and stable flow of oil supplies, wheat and some other materials to Syria via the Mediterranean. The sources indicated that intensive meetings were held during the last period,...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:45 P.M.) - On Saturday, Yemen's Ansarallah Movement (Houthi forces) announced that it had launched an attack by means of a drone on the King Khalid Airbase in Saudi Arabia. A spokesman for the Houthi forces, Yahya Saree, posted on his Twitter account that a Qasef 2K drone bombed a "sensitive military target" at...

On Sunday, the Natanz nuclear site was hit by an attack, which was slammed by Tehran as an act of "nuclear terrorism". Just days after the incident, Iran announced it had managed to reach 60 percent uranium enrichment, in line with its previously announced plans. Tehran has learned the identity of a man who is believed...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:00 A.M.) - Friday morning witnessed intense operational efforts by the Russian warplanes, following mobile monitoring operations and a bank of targets for the vehicles and headquarters of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) terrorist organization in central Syria. A high-level field source told Sputnik Arabic on Friday that Russian reconnaissance planes monitored the headquarters of...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:40 A.M.) - Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu confirmed that the military operations in Syria helped the Russian army to examine weapons and take real steps towards developing them. The Russian Defense Minister indicated that the operations in Syria are a separate milestone and a real breakthrough that gave the Russian army a serious...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:50 A.M.) - The Syrian mercenaries that took part in the Karabakh conflict between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces were filmed recently complaining about stolen salaries, In the short video, members of the Sultan Suleiman Shah Brigade complained that they fought with the Turkish forces alongside the Azerbaijani troops in Karabakh, but not compensated for...

Israel is ready to do "whatever it takes" to quash Tehran's efforts to obtain nuclear weapons, Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi told journalists after a summit on regional stability in Paphos, Cyprus. The warning comes as Iran announced it had met its 60% uranium enrichment goal. The Islamic Republic notified the International Atomic Energy Agency about its...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:10 P.M.) - Damascus demanded that the American administration "compensate for the heavy damage and heavy losses inflicted by the American aggression and occupation against the Syrian people." The Syrian Foreign Ministry said that Syria “bears the US administration's consequences for its criminal policies against the Syrian people,” adding that “the United States and...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:00 P.M.) - The semi-official Tasnim News Agency of Iran reported this evening that the Israeli ship, The Hebron, was targeted near the United Arab Emirates (UAE) port of Fujairah in the Arabian Sea. "The Israeli ship was targeted at the Emirati port of Fujairah," the agency tweeted, adding that the number of the...

Iran will introduce 1,000 more centrifuges at the Natanz nuclear site, Chief Iranian Nuclear Negotiator Abbas Araghchi has said. Iran also started raising uranium enrichment to 60 percent on Tuesday, the IRNA news agency reported, citing Iran's deputy foreign minister, who also said Tehran had informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about the move, Press...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:20 P.M.) - Iran accused Israel of being behind the attack that targeted, on Sunday, the Natanz nuclear facility in the central Isfahan Governorate. This came in a statement by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during his meeting, on Monday, with the National Security Committee in the Iranian Shura Council, according to the...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:40 P.M.) - Libyan politician Ahmed Gaddaf al-Dam said that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is the favorite if he decides to run for the presidential elections in Libya. In the interview with Sky News Arabia, Gaddaf, the leader in the National Struggle Front, boasted that Saif al-Islam, son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi,...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:00 P.M.) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that his country "will not allow Iran to possess a nuclear weapon, in light of the threats it directs towards Israel." During a joint press conference with the US Secretary of Defense in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said, as reported by Sputnik Arabic, "Iran continues...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:30 P.M.) - On Monday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry commented on the return of Syria to the Arab League and the presidential elections that will be held there. In response to RT's question about Syria's return to the Arab League, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry stressed that it is necessary for Syria to...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:40 P.M.) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on Monday that Moscow has warned Turkey and other countries against encouraging "militarism" in Ukraine. Lavrov said following talks he held in Cairo with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry, on Monday: “We urge all responsible countries with which we communicate, including Turkey, to analyze the...

Iran’s main uranium enrichment facility was hit in what officials have called an “act of nuclear terrorism” on Sunday. Israeli and US media have since suggested that the nuclear incident was the result of a “classified Israeli operation.” The attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility was plotted “long before” the start of the ongoing meeting of...

Iran's Vice-President Ali Akbar Salehi has announced that Tehran is treating today's incident involving Natanz nuclear plant's power grid as an act of "nuclear terrorism". "Iran condemns this heinous attack and reminds the international community and the of the need to combat such acts of nuclear terrorism", Salehi said. The vice-president added...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:00 A.M.) - The Houthi forces, also known as the Ansarallah Movement, announced that it had targeted the Jizan Airport and King Khalid Airbase in the Saudi city of Khamis Mushait on Sunday morning. The spokesman for the Houthi-aligned Yemeni armed forces,, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, tweeted on Sunday morning that two Qasef-2K drones...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:40 A.M.) - A spokesman for the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Behrouz Kamalvandi, announced on Sunday that an accident occurred at the electricity distribution network section of the uranium enrichment facility at the Natanz reactor. Kamalvandi said on Sunday that an incident had taken place in a part of the electricity distribution network of...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:45 P.M.) - The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), citing the Ministry of Oil and Mineral Revolution, announced that the Baniyas refinery will return to work after the availability of crude oil that was delivered from Iran. The agency quoted the general director of the aforementioned refinery as saying: "The refinery has returned to...