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France has approved Egypt’s purchase of 30 Dassault Rafale fighter jets for a deal reportedly estimated at $4.5 billion. Egypt’s defense ministry confirmed the deal on Twitter, adding that the final details will be completed today Tuesday as an Egyptian Read more
United Arab Emirates, UAE, Monday said it has begun its logistical flights to support the France-led international alliance’s efforts in “combating terrorism along the African Sahel region.” The defense ministry of the Gulf country, Middle East Monitor (MEMO) noted, said Read more
Morocco’s General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) handed France essential information about a French woman of Moroccan origin, who was plotting a terrorist attack in a church. The data enabled France to prevent the attack, a statement from the spokesperson Read more
Saudi Arabia and Greece are set to hold joint military exercises this month as the kingdom’s forces arrived in the European country. Six Royal Saudi Air Force F-15s, Anadolu news agency reports citing a Hellenic National Defense General Staff statement Read more
A court in Belgium Thursday handed a 20-year prison jail sentence to an Iranian diplomat accused of masterminding a terror bomb attack against an Iranian opposition group back in 2018, in France. Antwerp courthouse issued the verdict against Assadollah Assadi, Read more
Egypt is in talks with the World Bank for two combined loans valued $400 million earmarked for the financing of transport projects, reports say. The two credit facilities, $200 million each, reports say, are directed for the development of the Read more
The United Defense department, the Pentagon, has leveled charges against the United Arab Emirates, UAE, for its alleged financing of Wagner Group, a Russian security company currently present in Eastern Libya, Foreign Policy Magazine reports. The charges, the magazine notes, Read more
French insurance giant AXA Group announced it has relinquished its Gulf region operations to GIC Gulf Insurance for $290 million as it moves to slim its activities. The transaction will enable GIC Gulf Insurance to take control of Axa Gulf Read more
Libya will hold its presidential election next year on December 24 to elect a democratic central authority after years of chaos that erupted in the wake of NATO intervention in 2011.The Acting Head of the UN mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Read more
An improvised explosive device (IED) went off injuring four people at a World War I commemoration ceremony organized by the French embassy in the Saudi port city of Jeddah. The French foreign ministry reportedly in a statement condemned the incident. Read more