Nations around the Caspian Sea are boosting their navies. With Russia and the West involved as well, its getting complicated.
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The Caspian Sea, an oil-rich body of water on the border of Iran and the former Soviet Union, has seen an unprecedented amount of naval activity this year: Iran has [...]
The European Union told Greece last week that it must make about 5 billion Euros in order to be in conformity with the bailout plan, so the Greek government is trying to figure out where to find the 5 billion euros from.
Most likely, Prime Minister George Papandreou is contemplating further increasing taxes, which is the [...]
Armenia’s Foreign Ministry has warned Azerbaijan against trying to push a fresh resolution accusing Yerevan of occupying Azerbaijani lands through the United Nations General Assembly, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, or RFE/RL, reported Thursday on its website.
The ministry said such a move would hamper a peaceful resolution to the Nagorno Karabakh issue.
The draft resolution, which the [...]
The president of Bosnia and Herzegovina has said he finds Turkey’s Balkans policy “very positive” and knows that many in Europe have positive thoughts about Turkey’s new role in the Balkans just days ahead of President Abdullah Gül’s scheduled visit to the Balkan country.
“Three-way meetings [between Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia] are perfect and very successful. [...]
The withdrawal of American combat troops from Iraq will not correlate to a reduction in flights of unmanned aircraft, and in fact the flight hours will rise, according to U.S. Army officials speaking at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International conference in Denver.
“You’ve heard recently all combat units have pulled out of Iraq, but [...]
Denmark has turned down a NATO request to send F-16 fighters to Afghanistan as it believes it has done enough for the international military mission there, the foreign minister said Thursday.
“We are one of the countries that contributes the most to Afghanistan,” Foreign Minister Lene Espersen told the media after a meeting of parliament’s foreign [...]
Armenia and Russia signed a deal Friday extending the presence of Russian forces in the ex-Soviet republic by decades, bolstering Moscow’s military clout in the strategic South Caucasus region.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sarkisian oversaw the signing of the deal in Yerevan during a visit by the Russian leader.
The agreement will [...]
MOSCOW | The Russian Defense Ministry will hold a competition in September to select a new corvette for the Navy to replace the Project 20380 class, a business daily said on Monday, citing sources in the shipbuilding industry.
The competition should produce a mobile, fast-moving ship with a helicopter hangar and a [...]
Turkey and Azerbaijan need to act in solidarity, cooperation and brotherhood, Turkish President Abdullah Gül said Monday during a two-day formal visit to the Caucasus country.
“We are one nation with separate states. We come together frequently based on such an understanding. We will continue our solidarity and cooperation,” Gül said Monday after signing a treaty [...]
Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Aug. 17 that Iran will unveil next week an array of weapons, including missiles, speedboats and a long range drone, the ISNA news agency reported.
Two missiles, Qiam (Rising) and the third generation Fateh 110 (Conqueror) would be tested next week, when Iran marks the annual government week, Vahidi said [...]
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