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North Thunder (or in Arabic: رعد الشمال Raʿad aš-Šamāl / Raad al-Shamal) was a joint military exercise held in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the participation of 20 Arab and Islamic countries; notably the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Bahrain, Sudan, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Kuwait, Morocco, Chad, Maldives, Comoros, Tunisia, Oman, Malaysia and Yemen in February–March 2016.
On 18 and 19 October, in response to Syrian National Army forces moving south following their capture of the town of Dabiq from ISIL and reaching the northern shore of the Shahba Reservoir, the Syrian Democratic Forces advanced to the southeast and captured several villages on the southern shore of the reservoir, including the dam.
American F-15Es parked in Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Shield. One of the main concerns in the Western world was the significant threat Iraq posed to Saudi Arabia. Following Kuwait's conquest, the Iraqi Army was within easy striking distance of Saudi oil fields. Control of these fields, along with Kuwaiti and Iraqi reserves, would have ...
29 January: Iraqi forces invade the town of Khafji in Saudi Arabia. Iraqi forces are quickly engaged by Saudi Arabian and Qatari troops with help from the U.S. Marines. 30 January: Coalition starts its first land operations in Kuwait and Southern Iraq to liberate Khafji. 1 February: Iraqi forces are driven out of Saudi Arabia.
"My intuition, my belief, is that this is a part of his chess, and this is his way of getting places like maybe Saudi Arabia or Jordan to say, 'No, no, no, you can't have this. Let us do it ...
Operation Southern Watch was an air-centric military operation conducted by the United States Department of Defense from August 1992 to March 2003.. United States Central Command's Joint Task Force Southwest Asia (JTF-SWA) [5] had the mission of monitoring and controlling the airspace south of the 32nd Parallel (extended to the 33rd Parallel in 1996) in southern and south-central Iraq during ...
Saudi Arabia’s Dream of the Desert train, which is slated to hit the rails next year, is set to be the region’s first five-star luxury train, and the first renderings for the 14 carriages have ...
Sotheby’s inaugural auction in Saudi Arabia — and the country’s first major international art and luxury auction — topped $17 million in sale, with works by Arab artists setting records.