Around the Region

As part of an effort to establish deeper military cooperation in the Red Sea/Gulf of Aden region, Saudi Arabia invited several countries to participate in the Red Waves 1 exercise in Jeddah in January 2019. Special operations and marine…

When heavy snow and avalanches left some residents of northern Afghanistan isolated from the rest of the country, Tajikistan agreed to expand free health care for its neighbors to the south. Tajik Minister of Health Nasim Olimzoda and…

UNIPATH STAFF Qatar has allocated $1.8 billion to modernize Al Udeid Air Base, the main air base the United States uses in its military and counterterrorism operations in the Middle East and Afghanistan.  According to Deputy Commander…

UNIPATH STAFF More than 100 Afghan students have enrolled in a new technical college over the border in Uzbekistan, a school designed to teach the Uzbek language to ethnic Uzbeks from Afghanistan and train a cadre of skilled technicians…

UNIPATH STAFF Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov called on Central Asian and global leaders to engage constructively with Afghanistan in the name of regional security. The president’s speech at the United National General…

UNIPATH STAFF Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbay Jeenbekov re-emphasized his country’s commitment to defeat terrorism in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2018. President Jeenbekov expressed support for the…

UNIPATH STAFF Tajikistan has received $8 million worth of military assistance from the United States to counter the movement of illegal drugs and criminals on the 1,400-kilometer Tajik-Afghan border. The money will pay for patrol…

UNIPATH STAFF Royal Saudi Navy Commander Gen. Fahd bin Abdullah al-Ghufaili launched the country’s first MH-60R helicopter in September 2018, part of the kingdom’s adoption of top-tier military technology to help stabilize the Middle…

UNIPATH STAFF Egypt hosted what it called the first joint Arab military exercise on its soil. Military forces from six Arab countries gathered at Mohammed Najib Military Base near Alexandria during November 2018 for the Arab Shield 1…

UNIPATH STAFF Praised by then Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev for improving security in Central Asia, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) celebrated 20 years in the country in October 2018.…