Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and counter-UAV technologies appear poised to continue proliferating and evolving in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. The accompanying articles shed light on their use in this corner…
In need of allies and with deteriorating relations with neighbors, Algeria’s relations with Russia are firm and potentially deepening following multiple military-diplomatic visits from Russia. Russia–Algeria links “are reaching a…
Over a three-week span in April and May, the Iraqi news agency Shafaq News reported at least three separate attacks in which ISIS fighters took advantage of dust storms to…
The long-frozen dispute over the Western Sahara, in which Morocco claims sovereignty over the territory and Algeria supports the Polisario Front’s independence aspirations, continues to thaw amidst sporadic military activity.…
The Iranian “358” missile appears to be an increasingly important weapon for Yemen’s Houthi-led military forces. The 358 missile is classified as surface-to-air, but in early January, it was seemingly…
A little-known group calling itself the “True Promise Brigades” claimed a 2 February attack on Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), involving multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The group’s only…
Houthi-led forces in Yemen are closing in on the city,of Marib, the key North Yemen stronghold of the Saudi backed, Internationally Recognized Government (IRG). Their methodical entry into the province…
The escalating diplomatic conflict between Morocco and Algeria may be headed for intermittent skirmishes in the Western Sahara, amid rumors that Morocco used its recently acquired Turkish TB-2 drones for…
Recent reports indicate that both Morocco and Algeria are strengthening their unmanned aircraft systems capabilities amid growing bilateral tensions and repeated Polisario Front harassment of Moroccan positions in the Western…
A Russia-backed plan to both limit Iranian influence and extinguish the embers of rebellion is underway in Daraa Province, the symbolic cradle of Syria’s 2011 uprising. Rebel holdouts in the…