On July 5, 2007, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported that Syrian authorities had instructed all Syrian citizens residing in Lebanon to return to their country by July 15, 2007. [2] The next day, the Israeli Arab daily Al-Sinara similarly reported, on the authority of a Lebanese source close to Damascus, that Syria was [...]

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This could lead to war.
On June 26, Syria opened the Damascus-Golan road to Quneitra to civilian traffic for the first time since the Six-Day war of 1967. No announcement was made. The dozens of military roadblocks studding the 60 km high road connecting the capital with the Syrian part of Golan for 40 years were [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) - North Korea is about to field an advanced short-range missile that has been tested successfully and will pose a new threat to South Korea, a departing Pentagon official said Friday.
Richard Lawless, at a final news conference after serving nearly five years as the Pentagon’s top Asia policy official, said the new missile [...]

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Some observers have incorrectly characterized the threat of nuclear terrorism in Pakistan as stemming from the danger of radical Islamists overrunning the country and gaining control of the country’s nuclear assets. However, given that the religious parties lack wide popular support and that President Musharraf and his senior Army commanders largely oppose the Islamist agenda, [...]

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Saudi Arabia downplays Iran military threatTimes of India, India - Jul 6, 2007The Gulf Arab region contains a large US military presence that could be deployed to attack Iran, which Washington and its ally Israel accuse of using a …

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by Daniel Pipes
FrontPageMagazine.com
July 6, 2007
Allies in the Cold war trenches generally, but not always, still work together against radical Islam.
Take the key question of which Muslims are on the enemy’s side and which on ours. With exceptions, the Right shuns non-violent Islamists, while the Left welcomes them as friends. Conservatives accept as moderates only those [...]

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OVER THE LAST few years, the world has watched jihadist assassinations on the streets of Amsterdam, civilian slaughter in Madrid and on the London Underground, France’s car-and-vanities bonfire, and the global assault on Denmark after one of its newspapers dared to depict the Prophet Muhammad in a derogatory cartoon. For ordinary Europeans who pride ourselves [...]

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Tehran is on the offensive against us throughout the Middle East. Will Congress respond?
These latest revelations should be a painful wakeup call to the American people, and to the U.S. Congress. They also expand on a steady stream of public statements over the past six months by David Petraeus, the commanding general of our [...]

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HONG KONG, July 6 (RIA Novosti) - China is close to beginning construction of its first aircraft carrier to expand the operational and strategic capabilities of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), a Chinese news agency said Friday.
KANWA News cited sources in the Chinese defense industry as saying that several companies had received contracts [...]

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China has come to loom large in regional affairs. Some, seeing its fast-paced economic growth, regard it as the region’s biggest opportunity, while others, seeing its ambitions to become a superpower, sense trouble ahead. Historical experience, the latter argue, has shown that entry of a new major power into the vortex of international politics has [...]

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Former senior US diplomat warns of risk of war with Syria this summer in exclusive Ynetnews interview; criticizes US for being soft on Damascus; says Fatah will lose West Bank to Hamas if it does not change
Dennis Ross, the former senior American Middle East peace negotiator, says he thinks “there is a risk of war” [...]

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Wall Street Journal
How an Elite Military SchoolWall Street Journal - Jul 5, 2007Its mission is to create innovative, tech-savvy leaders capable of transforming Israel’s military. Upon graduating from the nine-year program, Mr. Czerniak …

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But the Kremlin has never seen the plan to build the bases as “only” about BMD to protect Europe and the United States from Iranian nuclear missiles. They see it as the biggest, boldest bridgehead yet in the U.S. and NATO encroachment on the old former Soviet area’s sphere of influence in Central Europe [...]

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Attack likely to exploit existing network of cross-border human, drug traffickers
WASHINGTON – A nuclear terrorist attack on the U.S. is better than an even bet in the next 10 years, says a former assistant secretary of defense and author of a book on the subject.
“Based on current trends, a nuclear terrorist attack on the United [...]

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While Australia has been the US’s strongest military and political ally in the Asia Pacific since the second world war, Canberra has also been assiduous in recent years in building up a broad relationship with Beijing.
“It appears that [the Howard government] is moving to a policy under pressure from Washington and Tokyo to be less [...]

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July 6 (Bloomberg) — Japan expressed concern over China’s military build-up, saying in the government’s annual defense report that the military balance in the Taiwan Straits is shifting away from Taiwan.
“China is quickly modernizing its military power,” said the report, the first since the defense ministry was upgraded from an agency in January. The [...]

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