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Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israels military correspondent. IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi appears to indicate that Israel was responsible for two airstrikes in Syria last month, saying the first targeted a weapons manufacturing facility and the second a shipment of munitions. In a speech to the Institute for National Security Studies, Kohavi notes the wide range of fronts and types of threats the military is facing. To demonstrate this complexity, he notes a week in which the IDF conducted...

1,356 shares A member of the US Air Force stands near a Patriot missile battery at the Prince Sultan air base in al-Kharj, central Saudi Arabia, February 20, 2020 (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP) DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The US military is exploring the possibility of using a Red Sea port in Saudi Arabia and additional two airfields in the kingdom amid heightened tensions with Iran, the military said Tuesday. While describing the work as “contingency” planning, the ...

Follow Jan. 26, 2021 The U.S. military is exploring the possibility of using a Red Sea port in Saudi Arabia and an additional two airfields in the kingdom amid heightened tensions with Iran, the military said Tuesday. While describing the work as "contingency" planning, the U.S. military said it already has tested unloading and shipping cargo overland from Saudi Arabias port at Yanbu, a crucial terminal for oil pipelines in the kingdom. Using Yanbu, as well as air bases at Tabuk and Taif along ...

34 AHMAD AL-JABER AIR BASE, Kuwait (Jan. 26, 2021) Combined forces from the United Arab Emirates and United States recently completed a week long defense-focused training engagement in the UAE. Service members from the UAE Presidential Guard and U.S. Marine Corps’ Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force – Crisis Response – Central Command, gathered to strengthen partnerships and enhance collective crisis response capability in the region. “The relationship between ...

“These are prudent military planning measures that allow for temporary or conditional access of facilities in the event of a contingency, and are not provocative in any way, nor are they an expansion of the U.S. footprint in the region, in general, or in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in particular,” Urban wrote. U.S. Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, the head of U.S. Central Command, visited Yanbu on Monday. Defense One and the Wall Street Journal, which traveled with McKenzie to Yanbu, first repo...

Jon Gambrell FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2020 file photo, a member of the U.S. Air Force stands near a Patriot missile battery at the Prince Sultan Air Base in al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia. The U.S. military is exploring the possibility using a Red Sea port in Saudi Arabia and an additional two airfields there amid heightened tensions with Iran, the military said Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP, File) January 26, 2021 - 4:48 AM DUBAI, United Arab...

US exploring new bases in Saudi Arabia amid Iran tensions by Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press Posted Jan 26, 2021 6:55 am EDT Last Updated Jan 26, 2021 at 6:58 am EDT DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. military is exploring the possibility of using a Red Sea port in Saudi Arabia and additional two airfields in the kingdom amid heightened tensions with Iran, the military said Tuesday. While describing the work as “contingency” planning, the U.S. military said it already has tested un...

Published Tuesday, January 26, 2021 9:28AM EST DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The U.S. military is exploring the possibility of using a Red Sea port in Saudi Arabia and an additional two airfields in the kingdom amid heightened tensions with Iran, the military said Tuesday. While describing the work as "contingency" planning, the U.S. military said it already has tested unloading and shipping cargo overland from Saudi Arabias port at Yanbu, a crucial terminal for oil pipelines ...

Prior to the Senate confirming Lloyd Austin to be secretary of defense on Friday, his...

Troops chasing out illegal miners Following reports that some military men from the Headquarters of the Central Command of the Ghana Army are protecting illegal mining operation of some Chinese nationals, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Major General Thomas Oppong-Peprah, according to information available to The Chronicle, has held an emergency durbar with personnel. The durbar was to address media reports that suggested that some soldiers deployed to Tontokrom in the Amansie South District i...