IRAN'S QASSEM SOLEIMANI KILLED IN US AIR RAID AT BAGHDAD A...
January 3 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC's) Quds Force, and architect of its regiona...
Turkey's parliament approves military deployment to Libya
January 3 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Turkey's parliament has approved a bill to deploy troops to Libya in support of the embattled United Nations-recognised Government of N...
Putin’s Russia, twenty years on
January 3 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Twenty years ago, on December 31, 2019, resigning Russian President Boris Yeltsin (R) tapped then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) to...
Taiwan Army Chief dies in a helicopter crash
January 3 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Taiwan’s Chief of Military Staff Shen Yi-ming and seven other people lost their lives in a helicopter crash in Taiwan’s mou...
The embassy attack revealed Trump’s weakness
January 2 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Over the past 18 months, Donald Trump has picked a fight with Iran that he won’t end and can’t win. That fight has had horr...
US caught off guard as protesters storm Baghdad embassy: a...
January 2 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Hundreds of protesters breached the outer walls of the heavily fortified US embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday, setting parts of it...
Malaysia receives first of 4 large patrol ships built in C...
January 2 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Malaysia received one of four large patrol ships it had ordered for the first time from China, the Royal Malaysian Navy said Tuesday, i...
Malaysia-Turkey Relations in Focus With New Military Pacts
January 1 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Earlier this month, the defense aspect of the relationship was in the spotlight again during a summit meeting between the two countries...
Militiamen Breach U.S. Embassy In Baghdad; Trump Blames Ir...
January 1 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Dozens of Iraqi Shiite militiamen and their supporters broke into the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday, smashing a main door...
US reminds Iran of red line on Iraqi turf
January 1 ,2020
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
The “precision defensive strikes” by the United States at five targets of Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia in Iraq and...
A low, dishonest decade
January 1 ,2020
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By: Kaushik Basu
I write this not as a professional economist, nor as a policymaker, but as a citizen of a tiny planet that is spinning through a vast u...
Russia slams US sanctions on European gas pipeline
December 21 ,2019
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By: SAM Staff
Russia hit out Saturday at the US decision to impose sanctions on companies working on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that will transport R...
Trump signs bill establishing Space Force as 6th military...
December 21 ,2019
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By: SAM Staff
President Donald Trump signs the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, De...
JAISHANKAR CANCELS MEETING WITH CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS ON K...
December 20 ,2019
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By: SAM Staff
Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar, who is in the US for 2+2 dialogue, has confirmed that he cancelled his meeting with a senior...
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