In an anti-China function, the US will use the CL-20 to increase the range of weapons in the Pacific
The Americans are studying how to modify the mix of chemicals that fuel missiles and rockets to increase the range of munitions in order to gain a tactical advantage in the Pacific. A solution to be able to operate safely and further away from China. The Pentagon and Congress are studying a retrofit that could extend [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Intervening in Niger? The ultimatum of Ecowas - the community of West African states - launched to the Nigerien coup plotters to return to democratic leadership of the country expires on Sunday. However, just yesterday, the putschists received the support of Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea in the event of a military attack by any block of [...]
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping has replaced two generals who commanded the country's missile forces, thus starting the most important purge within the army's top ranks. General Li Yuchao, commander of the People's Liberation Army's Rocket Force, and his deputy, General Liu Guangbin, had already disappeared from circulation several [...]
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The coup plotting military junta, after having made President Mohamed Bazoum resign, does not want to listen to the appeals of the international community for a restoration of democracy and continues its rise to power. Yesterday's news that the military arrested 180 members of the governing party including two key executive figures. How much […]
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Classified Pentagon documents leaking online reveal inconvenient details such as those about Ukraine's air defenses and Israel's Mossad spy agency – it would emerge that the Israeli spy agency encouraged its staff and the public to participate in the protest movement against the reform of the judiciary and the weakening of the powers of the […]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Last week, French Defense Minister Florence Parly said during a radio interview that France is not forced to maintain its military presence in Mali at all costs. Open sources say that the transalpine government's decision to withdraw from Mali could be taken as early as the next two weeks. [...]
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Winds of war are in the air in Eastern Europe with Washington and Moscow tightening up their positions by the hour. "Russia cannot ignore the activity of NATO and the risk that the Ukrainian armed forces will stage provocations in the Donbass is now higher", thundered Vladimir Putin's spokesman, [...]
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On 14 January, as reported on the twitter profile of the Italian Embassy in Niger, our country, in the presence of local authorities, donated, through the military mission MISIN, 1000 surgical kits to the maternity ward of the Issaka Gazobi hospital in Niamey . The surgical devices will serve as an aid to the ward's health staff to ensure a better [...]
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Today the extraordinary G7 summit was held remotely, organized by the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to discuss international security, migrants and respect for human rights with a particular focus on the situation in Afghanistan in light of the expected withdrawal date of the American military, the 31 August next. While on the one hand the [...]
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Yesterday, the Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio was heard by Copasir (Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic) on the Afghanistan dossier and the descending repercussions on national security in relation to migratory flows and the probable resurgence of terrorism risk. At the Copasir the director of Dis, Elisabetta Belloni had already been heard while [...]
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In an era where computer violations and data thefts become more and more frequent and risk immobilizing the economic and social functions of a state, our country has equipped itself with a National Cybersecurity Agency, with the aim of protecting national interests. in the field of cybersecurity and [...]
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LAST HOUR. The Taliban are entering Kabul from all fronts, the Afghan interior ministry reports directly. Shots are heard in the streets of the city, but there is no fighting. The militiamen launched the decisive attack: the prison was attacked and thousands of prisoners were released. According to some sources, he specifies [...]
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Yesterday, Undersecretary of State Di Stefano chaired the meeting of the Special Envoys for Afghanistan from Europe (Italy, France, Germany, Norway, United Kingdom) and the United States at the Farnesina. Also attended by NATO's Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, a representative of the UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the Special Envoy of Qatar […]
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Antony Blinken, the head of American diplomacy, arrived in Italy as the last stop on his European tour. Today, for the first time in Italy, the plenary ministerial meeting on the anti-Daesh Coalition is scheduled, it will be co-chaired by Di Maio and Blinken. We will also talk about Syria and humanitarian aid to be allocated to the country for [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Macron last week launched an appeal to the US and other Western countries to form a coalition of special forces to replace the French operation Barkhane, which cost several billion and 55 casualties among French soldiers. Paris has decided to withdraw from the Sahel thus marking the failure of a presence [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Western intelligence agencies are certain that the new global crises will come from Africa where terrorist violence is renewing with the birth of many "caliphates" while the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other militias exploit the withdrawal of foreign troops to reorganize. After years of attrition in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, [...]
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The English Finacial Times dedicates an article to Mario Draghi and to Italy, seen by many Italian and foreign observers as a new reality capable of favoring and attracting multilateralism. Italy will chair the next G20 in Venice, a forum where high-income countries join together with major emerging economic powers such as [...]
read moreThe Israeli army has suffered the largest number of rocket attacks, around 2800 since Monday, more than during the escalation of 2019 and during the 2006 war with Hezbollah in Lebanon. The military of the Jewish state claimed to have hit the homes of several Hamas commanders and accused the [...]
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This is a real scoop of La Stampa. The general who controls Cyrenaica, Khalifa Haftar was in Rome on January 8 to meet with US Deputy National Security Advisor Victoria Coates (in charge of Libya and North Africa), and Richard Norland, American ambassador for Libya. The news emerged by crossing the information [...]
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Al Serraj the day before the visit of the EU delegation (scheduled for January 7), headed by High Representative Borrel, warned: "Do not come to Libya, for security reasons, it is dangerous here". As Semprini points out in La Stampa, in reality, Fayez al Sarraj does not want any interference, he wants to continue with the agreement signed with Turkey by [...]
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The libia.it site reported that the Libyan Islamist component, represented by the Libyan National Assembly of Revolutionaries on February 17, has called for a demonstration in the capital on January 7 against the arrival of the European delegation and in support of the protocols of Agreement between Erdogan and Serraj. The group affirmed its clear refusal to visit [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The Turkish Parliament will meet in extraordinary session on Thursday 2 January at 14, when in Italy it will be 12, to anticipate the vote on President Erdogan's AKP motion authorizing the sending of troops to Libya in support of the government of national accord of Fayez al-Sarraj against the offensive of the militias of [...]
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Italy lost Libya in 2011 when Gaddafi was overthrown by force at the hands of Sarkozy's France. France has never digested our relevance, our privileged lane in Libya. The final push for Italy is the signing, on November 27, of the Turkish-Libyan treaty on the jurisdictional areas of the Mediterranean of [...]
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Al Serraj's armed forces arrested pilot Amer Al-Jagam after his plane was shot down in southern Al-Zawiya. As reported by The Libia Observer, the pilot reported that the mercenaries of the Russian group Wagner operate in coordination with the operations room of Tarhouna in ground operations (snipers) [...]
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The Farnesina supports the strategic export plan that is to be given to Italy. This was stated by Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano, speaking at the sixth meeting of the control room for internationalization, underway at the Ministry of Economic Development. An essential point to underline, according to Alfano, "is that Italian exports had an important function [...]
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On Monday 24, Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 July, the twelfth Conference of Italian Ambassadors will take place at the Farnesina, "Security and growth in the age of disorder: Italian diplomacy in the face of global challenges", at which the President of the Republic will speak, Sergio Mattarella, the Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and [...]
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On Thursday 6 July, the ministerial conference “A shared responsibility for a common goal: solidarity and security” will be held at the Farnesina, on the initiative of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano. The conference will see the participation of the ministers of the countries of transit and origin of migration (Libya, Niger, Tunisia, Egypt, Chad, Ethiopia, Sudan), together with some countries [...]
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