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MUAMMAR AL ERYANI, YEMENI MINISTER OF INFORMATION, CULTURE AND TOURISM On November 8, 2022, a United States Navy ship and U.S. Coast Guard ship on their way to Yemen intercepted an Iranian ship carrying materials used to manufacture…

Not long after the United States announced it would refocus its mission in Iraq to an advise, assist and enable function, an Iraqi delegation arrived in the U.S. to share its successful ideas and seek consultation on a topic critical to its…

NISREEN AL-HMOUD, PROJECT DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN BIOSAFETY, BIOSECURITY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, ROYAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY, JORDAN Ensuring that nonstate actors can’t acquire and weaponize viruses, bacteria and other biological…

UNIPATH STAFF In a display of military proficiency designed to deter adversaries and reassure partners, Saudi and U.S. troops offloaded an amphibious expeditionary force in the Red Sea port of Yanbu and moved it hundreds of kilometers…

Russia’s attack on Ukraine has sent destabilizing ripples not just through Europe but also through the Middle East and South and Central Asia. Whether these threats to security are direct — refugees fleeing war zones — or indirect — wheat…

UNIPATH STAFF After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, residents of Central Asia found themselves living among stockpiles of radiological material. Uranium mines, storage warehouses and processing plants — and in some cases actual…

BRIG. GEN. JOE HADDAD, LEBANESE ARMED FORCES A small country in a tense geostrategic environment, Lebanon experiences a disproportionate share of security challenges: terrorism, conventional warfare, asymmetric threats, manmade…

MAJ. GEN. MOHAMED SALAHEDIN HASAN ASSISTANT MINISTER OF DEFENCE FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, MINISTRY OF DEFENCE AND MILITARY PRODUCTION, EGYPT Warfare, like many other human activities, has been facilitated and governed by technology;…

UNIPATH STAFF    In a naval display stretching from the Arabian Gulf to the east coast of Africa and the northern Red Sea port of Aqaba to the Gulf of Oman, thousands of Sailors and Marines joined forces at the International Maritime…

GEN. MICHAEL KURILLA, COMMANDER OF UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND Somewhere in the Arabian Gulf, a dhow makes its way along the surface of the water, almost 50 kilometers off the coast.  From the outside, this dhow appears just like…