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Shafaq News
20-05-2025
- Shafaq News
Jordanian Army intercepts drone smuggling narcotics on northeastern border
Shafaq News/ On Tuesday, the Jordan Armed Forces – Arab Army announced that its Eastern Military Zone had successfully thwarted an attempt to smuggle narcotics using a drone along the northeastern border. "The drone was intercepted and brought down, along with its cargo, inside Jordanian territory," an official military source from the General Command of the Armed Forces said, confirming that the seized materials were handed over to the relevant authorities for investigation and legal procedures. The source emphasized that the Jordanian Armed Forces remain vigilant and prepared to confront any attempts to compromise the country's security or sovereignty. "They will respond with full force and decisiveness to prevent all forms of infiltration or smuggling," he added.
Asharq Al-Awsat
27-04-2025
- Business
- Asharq Al-Awsat
Egypt, Czech Republic to Enhance Military Cooperation
Egypt and the Czech Republic on Saturday agreed to boost cooperation and exchange expertise between the two countries' air forces. The statement came during the visit of Egyptian Commander of the Air Force Mahmoud Fouad Abdel Gawad to the Czech Republic, where he held meetings with officials of the armed forces to discuss boosting aspects of military cooperation. 'The visit comes within the framework of the keenness of the General Command of the Armed Forces to promote military cooperation fields with sisterly and friendly countries,' according to the Egyptian army spokesperson. Abdel Gawad met with Commander of Czech Air Force Petr Cepelka and First Deputy of Czech Defense Minister Frantisek Sulc. The meetings tackled the strength and depth of the Egyptian-Czech relations and the importance of boosting aspects of cooperation and exchanging expertise between the Egyptian and Czech air forces in the coming period, the spokesperson said. Abdel Gawad also met with Deputy Foreign Minister Jiri Kozak. They agreed on boosting aspects of strategic partnership between their countries' air forces, in addition to opening new cooperation horizons in the field of aviation industry. The Egyptian Commander then visited the premises of the Czech aircraft company of Aero Vodochody. He said both sides are sharing viewpoints on a number of issues of mutual interest. On Tuesday, Egyptian Investment and Foreign Trade Minister Hassan El-Khatib discussed with Czech Ambassador in Cairo Ivan Jukl ways of fostering economic and trade cooperation between Egypt and the Czech Republic. Khatib highlighted the depth of relations, underlining the importance of increasing joint investments and establishing partnerships between the public and private sectors in both countries. The Minister said he plans to visit the Czech Republic soon along with an official delegation that comprises representatives of the Egyptian business community, to inform the Czech side about the recent reforms aimed at improving the business climate in Egypt. For his part, the Czech ambassador expressed his country's willingness to share experience with Egypt in bringing about economic and institutional transformation, reducing unemployment rates and supporting innovation and technology. 'Egypt enjoys competitive advantages, citing the tax policy that helps the country to be an attractive destination for non-labor-intensive investments, noting Czech companies seek to expand their presence in promising markets, such as Egypt,' Jukl said. The two sides then agreed on activating the joint business council and holding a forum bringing together business representatives from the public and private sectors in both countries to strengthen investment partnerships and expand bilateral cooperation.
Arab News
26-01-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Sudan army chief visits HQ after recapture from paramilitaries
PORT SUDAN: Sudan's army chief visited on Sunday his headquarters in the capital Khartoum, two days after forces recaptured the complex, which paramilitaries had encircled since the war erupted in April 2023.'Our forces are in their best condition,' Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan told army commanders at the reclaimed headquarters close to the city center and army's recapture of the General Command of the Armed Forces is its biggest victory in the capital since reclaiming Omdurman, Khartoum's twin city on the Nile's west bank, nearly a year a statement on Friday, the army said it had merged troops stationed in Khartoum North (Bahri) and Omdurman with forces at the headquarters, breaking the siege of both the Signal Corps in Khartoum North and the General Command, just south across the Nile the early days of the war, when the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) quickly spread through the streets of Khartoum, the military had to supply its troops inside the headquarters via was himself trapped inside for four months before emerging in August 2023 and fleeing to the coastal city of Port recapture of the headquarters follows other gains for the this month, troops regained control of Wad Madani, just south of Khartoum, securing a key crossroads between the capital and surrounding war in Sudan has unleashed a humanitarian disaster of epic of thousands of people have been killed and, according to the United Nations, more than 12 million has been declared in parts of Sudan but the risk is spreading for millions more people, a UN-backed assessment said last in the country's western Darfur region and in Kordofan in the south, families have been forced to eat grass, animal fodder and peanut shells to Sunday prayers in Rome, Pope Francis lamented how the country has become the site of 'the most serious humanitarian crisis in the world.'He called on both sides to end the fighting and urged the international community to 'help the belligerents find paths to peace soon.'Both sides have been accused of targeting civilians and indiscriminately shelling residential areas, with the RSF specifically accused of ethnic cleansing, systematic sexual violence and laying siege to entire United States announced sanctions this month against RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, accusing his group of committing genocide.A week later, it also imposed sanctions against Burhan, accusing the army of attacking schools, markets and hospitals, as well as using food deprivation as a weapon of the country, up to 80 percent of health care facilities have been forced out of service, according to official figures.A deadly attack late Friday on the Saudi Hospital in the besieged North Darfur state capital El-Fasher killed 70 people and injured 19 others, the World Health Organization said on Sunday.'At the time of the attack, the hospital was packed with patients receiving care,' WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on a rare statement addressing the targeting of health care in Sudan, Saudi Arabia also condemned the attack as a 'violation of international law and international humanitarian law.'AFP could not independently verify which of Sudan's warring sides had launched the local activists reported that the hospital was hit by a drone after the RSF issued an ultimatum demanding army forces and their allies leave the city in advance of an expected WHO chief said that another facility in North Darfur's Al-Malha, just north of El-Fasher, had also been attacked in recent days.'We continue to call for a cessation of all attacks on health care in Sudan, and to allow full access for the swift restoration of the facilities that have been damaged,' Ghebreyesus said.'Above all, Sudan's people need peace. The best medicine is peace,' he added.
