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UNIPATH STAFF Seventy-two military vehicles carrying hundreds of U.S. Marines rumbled to life at the break of dawn, their silhouettes splayed across the glowing horizon harboring the Saudi sun. In a military camp outside of Yanbu on…

MAJ. GEN. KHALED ALSHRIAAN, COMMANDER, KUWAIT AIR DEFENSE FORCE Integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) is essential in peacetime and conflict and is the ideal solution to counter emerging and future aerial threats. It achieves…

The Iraqi Border Guard Command Modernizes Methods To Stop Terrorists And Smugglers After Daesh’s military defeat in Iraq and the drying up of its sources of funding, terrorist groups have turned to self-financing by manufacturing and…

The United Arab Emirates seeks constructive engagement from global partners to help stabilize the Middle East DR. ANWAR GARGASH, DIPLOMATIC ADVISOR TO THE PRESIDENT, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES The Manama Dialogue offers us an important…

A summit in Jeddah reinforces economic and cultural ties between the regions UNIPATH STAFF Central Asian nations established relations with Arabian Gulf countries shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Initially centered around…

Unipath Staff Iraqi, Kuwaiti and U.S. Forces Duplicate Real-World Threats During Maritime Security Training Maritime forces from Iraq, Kuwait and the United States completed a two-day trilateral exercise focusing on counterpiracy and…

OSAMA MOBAREZ, SECRETARY-GENERAL, EAST MEDITERRANEAN GAS FORUM Forthe past four years, the world has witnessed consecutive challenges and crises, starting with the COVID pandemic and then the Russia-Ukraine war, climate change, and also…

Kazakhstani and U.S. Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs Have Cleaned up Nuclear and Biological Waste Sites U.S. DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY After the 1991 disintegration of the Soviet Union and Russia's subsequent hasty…

MAJ. GEN. MUSAAD EL-SHESHTAWY, EGYPTIAN ARMED FORCES The joint Egyptian-American Bright Star exercise is one of the largest and most important military exercises in the Middle East. Since 1980, Bright Star has sought to exchange…

A delegation of senior Iraqi officers tours the U.S. Army’s National Training Center Unipath Staff  |  Photos by U.S. Army National Training Center A high-level delegation from the Iraqi Ground Forces Command visited the U.S. Army’s…