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US Navy plans launch of Mideast drone force alongside allies

Vice Adm. Brad Cooper said he hopes the drone force using artificial intelligence would be operational by the summer of 2023 to put more “eyes and ears on the water.”

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US Navy detains smuggling ship, UK seizes drugs in Mideast waters

The interdictions were just the latest in the volatile waters of the Persian Gulf.

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Contractors who powered US war in Afghanistan stuck in Dubai

As of early June, 2,491 foreign contract workers remained on American bases across Afghanistan, down from 6,399 in April.

Who showed up for the in-person UAE weapons show?

In spite of the surging coronavirus pandemic, major arms makers descended on a convention center in Abu Dhabi, hoping to make deals with militaries across the Middle East.

Sailors perform F/A-18 turnaround inspections Dec. 29, 2020, on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in the Indian Ocean.

Aircraft carrier Nimitz staying in Mideast as Iran raises uranium enrichment levels, seizes South Korean ship

The acting defense secretary cited Iranian threats against Trump and other U.S. government officials as the reason for the redeployment, without elaborating.

US Space Force deploys to vast new frontier: Arabian Desert

Space Force now has a squadron of 20 airmen stationed at Qatar’s Al-Udeid Air Base in its first foreign deployment.

A Turkish deminer takes part in the clearance of unexploded ordnance remaining in the Salah al-Din area, south of the Libyan capital Tripoli, on June 15, 2020.

Pentagon report: Turkey sent up to 3,800 fighters to Libya

Turkey sent between 3,500 and 3,800 paid Syrian fighters to Libya over the first three months of the year, the U.S. Defense Department’s inspector general concluded in a new report, its first to detail Turkish deployments that helped change the course of Libya’s war.

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