DAMASCUS: Syrian Vice-President Farouqal-Shara downplayed prospects for peace with Israel on Thursday, saying there was a lack of crucial US backing.
“We are not optimistic. The American president does not want peace between Israel and Syria,” Shara told journalists at his office in the Syrian capital.
“Ehud Olmert is not serious about peace either. Israel will make [...]

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Ten years after the Air Force retired the SR-71 spy plane, Lockheed Martin’s legendary Skunk Works appears to be back at work developing a new Mach-6 reconnaissance plane, sources said.
The Air Force has awarded Lockheed’s Advanced Development Projects arm a top-secret contract to develop a stealthy 4,000-mph plane capable of flying to altitudes of about [...]

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According to the president, “the time has come for (manufacturer) BrahMos Aerospace to work on the Mark-II version of BrahMos so that you will still be the market leader in hypersonic cruise missiles.”
In the emerging network centric warfare scenario, “the fast deployment of hypersonic missile systems will be necessary to maintain our force level supremacy,” [...]

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Recently, we asked five National Post contributors to write the history of the world’s next major military conflict. In today’s instalment, John O’Sullivan details how Canada caused the implosion of Russia
Canada was already an energy superpower in 2015 when Nunavut Energy announced that it had discovered oil reserves equal to half those of Saudi Arabia [...]

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Our response in America to this perennial Middle East temper tantrum?
In the last 20 years, we’ve sent billions in aid to the Arab world. We’ve saved Muslims from Bosnia to Kuwait. We’ve removed dangerous thugs in Afghanistan and Iraq, fostering democracies in their place. We’ve opened our borders to immigrants from the Middle East. We’ve [...]

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Brian Ross and ABC News are reporting that according to evidence contained on a new videotape obtained by the Blotter, large teams of newly trained suicide bombers are being sent to the United States and Europe.
Teams assigned to carry out attacks in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Germany were introduced at an al [...]

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Syria and Iran seem like unnatural allies. Syria is a predominantly Sunni state run by Alawites, a secular Baathist offshoot; Iran is a mainly Shiite state, run by religious mullahs. Despite this ideological paradox, the two countries’ “special relationship,” which stretches back to the 1970s, has only strengthened since the invasion of Iraq, the U.S.-led [...]

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MUSLIMS OUTRAGED OVER SIR SALMAN RUSHDIE
The Muslim world is up in arms over the British announcement that controversial author Salman Rushdie has been honored with knighthood. The Iranian foreign ministry has called the decision a “provocative act.”
It was, perhaps, predictable that the Muslim world would not welcome Britain’s weekend announcement that author Salman Rushdie is [...]

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The timing of the attack has not been fortuitous for the Israeli government and it is closely linked to the recent events affecting regional stability: the deepening crisis of the Palestinian territories; the announcement of the appointment of Ehud Barak as the new Israeli defense minister; the contradictory signals launched by Syria and Israel about [...]

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We get right to our top story tonight: The situation in the Middle East is critical. Israeli tanks crossed into Gaza today. Missiles were fired across the border. Four Palestinians were killed; two more were shot by Israeli army in the West Bank earlier today.
And every day sees tensions rise between Israel and their new [...]

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The compulsory smiles and handshakes of the recently-concluded G-8 summit could not conceal the widening gulf between Russia and the United States.
Their rhetorical escalation in recent months resurrects memories of the Cold War. While it would take more than the current barbed exchanges to bring the old nightmare to life, the danger is that relations [...]

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Ambitious plans for new satellite and rocket programs reflect Russia’s attempts to flex its muscle and recover lost prestige on the international stage, say German experts.
Sergei Ivanov, one of Russia’s two deputy prime ministers, announced this week that Russia would expand its aerospace defense and satellite programs by launching a total of 20 additional [...]

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