YEMEN INCHES TOWARD PEACE; WITH AN EYE ON IRAN, ISRAELI UNVEILS NEW DRONE; U.S. REAFFIRMS CENTRAL ASIA TIES; AKP STEPS UP BATTLE AGAINST MILITARY IN TURKEY

A failing grade in WMD defense...; ...a slipping timeline for space, nuclear priorities...; ...and a status quo approach to strategic forces; Russia plans response to Polish Patriots; Hamas, rearmed

Pentagon frets over China's space program...; ...as India eyes the stars; Kremlin seeks to bring back balance of terror; Iron Dome inches forward; Beijing flexes its missile defense muscles

Bejing mulls law to favor domestic tech firms; Chinese map irks Vietnam, raises temperature on South China Sea

Riyadh and Tehran take sides in Yemen civil war; Hezbollah has a new military strategy...; ...and a new political one

"This is the way the world ends," T.S. Eliot wrote in his epic 1925 poem "The Hollow Men," "not with a bang but a whimper." Had he written it today, Eliot could easily have been speaking about the strategic divorce taking place between Israel and Turkey - a monumental decoupling with the power to alter the correlation of forces in the greater Middle East.

When the Fatah Central Committee convened its sixth party conference last month in Bethlehem -- the first such meeting in twenty years and the first ever held on Palestinian Authority territory -- one might have expected a bit of soul-searching. After all, more than two decades after the Palestine Liberation Organization and its main political faction met America's prerequisites for a dialogue by rhetorically recognizing Israel's right to exist, renouncing terrorism, and accepting United Nations Resolution 242, a casual observer might assume that a re-examination of revolutionary principles was in order. Yet nothing of the sort occurred.

One step forward in Israel...; ...and the United States; Iran's enduring interest in ballistic missiles; Back in the USSR; A speed bump for U.S.-Japanese cooperation

More aid for Palestinian security forces; Another round in Turkey's ideological tug-of-war; At SCO, China steals the show; The cyber front in the Gaza war

Positive thinking in Poland; In Iran, playing offense...; ...while thinking defense; Iran's anti-NMD plan; Strategic Posture Commission offers modest vision of missile defense