Around the Region

The presidents of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan held their first trilateral summit in Ashgabat in August 2023 to improve relations in Central Asia. The main areas of cooperation among these countries are energy, transportation…

UNIPATH STAFF Pakistan’s Armed Forces demonstrated a commitment to multinational cooperation through a series of military exercises that engaged partners from the Middle East and Central Asia in the second half of 2023.…

UNIPATH STAFF Ground forces from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and U.S. Task Force Spartan conducted the Arabian Gulf Firing Drill in November 2023 in the northern region of Hafr Al-Batin in Saudi Arabia. Aiming to raise the…

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan recently published a detailed statement on its website about its commitment to building a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan through Azerbaijan to Europe on the floor of the Caspian Sea. The…

UNIPATH STAFF Sadyr Japarov, President of Kyrgyzstan since 2020, attended the first ever Central Asia and USA summit held in New York on September 19, 2023. He was one of the presidents of the five Central Asian countries – Kazakhstan,…

UNIPATH STAFF Building on 31 years of partnership, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kairat Umarov welcomed U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu to Astana…

On the sidelines of the Seventh Iraqi Ambassadors Conference held in Baghdad in November 2023, Iraq’s National Security Advisor Qasim Al-Araji reminded the international community of the threat the Syrian al-Hawl camp poses if detainees are…

UNIPATH STAFF As part of development projects and initiatives sponsored by the Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen (SDRPY), two new schools opened in November 2023 in Taiz Governorate: Omar bin Al-Khattab and Al-Wahda…

Recognizing the importance of international partnerships in the defense industry, Egypt hosted the 3rd International Exhibition for Defense and Military Industries, or Egypt Defense Expo (EDEX 2023), in December 2023. Held at Egypt’s…

At the end of Dubai Airshow in November 2023, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministry of Defense signed a contract with the EDGE Group, one of the world’s leading advanced technology and defense conglomerates, to buy 100 Reach-S fixed-wing…