Middle East & North Africa
New explosion at Riyadh airport: injured and flights cancelled as Turkey condemns the Houthis
A powerful explosion hit King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Saturday, October 10. A diplomatic source cited by AFP…
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Middle East & North Africa
Syrian foreign minister in Ankara: Fidan and Kalın discuss SDF integration, ISIS, Israeli strikes and sanctions relief
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani met Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and intelligence chief İbrahim Kalın in Ankara on October…
Greece
Golan: Greece, as Security Council president, announces the Council’s call for implementation of the 1974 Disengagement Agreement
Members of the UN Security Council reaffirmed on October 9 the need to fully respect and implement the 1974 Disengagement…
Analysis
Analysis: Achilles Shield, what capabilities Greece is buying from Israel, when it arrives and how it answers Turkey’s “Steel Dome”
Analysis: the “Achilles Shield” is Greece’s first attempt to build a single integrated air-defence network, with David’s Sling, Barak MX,…
Cyprus
Cyprus and Israel back at the table over “Aphrodite”: new round of talks next week
Cyprus and Israel will hold a new round of online talks next week on the cross-border gas reservoir between Cyprus’s…
Middle East & North Africa
UAE: flydubai co-pilot planned to crash the aircraft into Ben Gurion airport, “drawing inspiration from 9/11”
The UAE attorney general says the co-pilot who tried to seize a flydubai Boeing on September 30 planned a suicide…
Middle East & North Africa
Turkish defence ministry discusses measures to deploy forces to Saudi Arabia under the Mecca Alliance
At its weekly briefing on October 8, Turkey’s defence ministry said the “necessary measures” for providing and deploying forces to…
Greece
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman answers Rubio’s Acropolis speech: it “deliberately omits” the other half of the Greek legacy
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei responded on X to Marco Rubio’s October 7 speech at the Pnyx in Athens,…
Middle East & North Africa
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say they hit LPG tanker “NV Sunshine” south of the Strait of Hormuz
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced on October 9 that it had struck a large LPG tanker, the NV Sunshine,…
Africa
Ethiopia: After Mekelle, fears grow of Eritrean and Egyptian involvement
Ethiopian federal forces took Mekelle on October 3 after more than a week of heavy fighting, but the TPLF says…
Middle East & North Africa
Senator Murphy says the Pentagon barred him from Al Udeid to hide the damage of the Iran war
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy accuses the Pentagon of a “cover-up” after he was denied access to Al Udeid Air Base…
Middle East & North Africa
Putin tells Pezeshkian Russia is ready to “do everything we can” to help end the war on Iran
Vladimir Putin and Masoud Pezeshkian met in Turkmenistan on October 8, ahead of the Commonwealth of Independent States summit, as…