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> Yiannis Charamidis
New war scenarios emerge in the wake of the Flydubai ‘flight of terror’, as implications for the Israeli and US ballots grow
The Flydubai incident has revived insecurity in Israel just weeks before the 27 October election, with polls showing no clear winner. As Netanyahu seeks a path back to power and Trump faces a weak approval rating before the US midterms, the weeks after 3 November could determine whether tensions over Gaza and Iran ease or escalate
Ukraine uses its own FP-7 ballistic missile in combat for the first time
Kyiv has not yet said what the missile struck, but President Zelensky says production is next, while the larger FP-9, reportedly able to reach Moscow, is slated for completion by the end of this year
Greece and Turkey clash over overlapping military exercises in the Aegean
Ankara has branded Athens' notice null and void and says its five-zone reservation stands, while Greece keeps its 12 to 20 October drills and insists only it can issue such notices over the Athens FIR
Cable or conduit? The distinction Ankara is overlooking regarding the Greece-Cyprus power interconnection
Speaking aboard the TCG Anadolu during the Denizkurdu-I exercise, Turkey's Defence Ministry demanded prior coordination over the Greece-Cyprus interconnector, renewed calls to demilitarise eastern Aegean islands and challenged Nicosia's right to bolster its air defences
What Israeli-designed “Achilles Shield” entails for Greece, former intelligence officer reveals
Athens is not simply buying David’s Sling, Spyder and Barak MX. For the first time, it is creating a single, multi-layered network that will see, assess and respond to different threats as one integrated system. Israeli analyst and former intelligence officer Dan Feferman explains exclusively to Proto Thema why the agreement signals something far larger […]
Polls put Germany’s AfD on course for its first state government, with ripple effects across Europe
Saxony-Anhalt is one of Germany’s smallest states, home to just over two million people, with limited economic weight compared with the country’s major industrial centres, and for decades it stayed far from the centre of political developments in Berlin. Today, however, the ballot in this eastern German state could trigger a political earthquake with consequences […]
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan sign joint defence pact in Jeddah
The pact, built on longstanding historical ties, Islamic solidarity and shared strategic interests, declares that any armed attack on one signatory will be treated as an attack against all three, reinforcing decades of defence cooperation
Saudi Arabia edges toward the nuclear threshold with Trump’s deal reshaping Middle East balance of power
Washington has approved a 30-year nuclear cooperation agreement allowing US firms into Saudi Arabia's atomic energy sector, paving the way for uranium enrichment on Saudi soil without the safeguards imposed on the UAE in 2009
