World
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Region
9/9/2023 5:57:00 PM
Algeria will allow aircraft carrying humanitarian aid to quake-hit Morocco to pass through its airspace, the president's office announced Saturday, suspending a two-year ban on flights to its regional rival.
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World
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Region
8/16/2023 7:25:13 PM
Jordan's army said it shot down a drone Wednesday loaded with TNT explosives trying to enter its airspace from Syria, in the latest incident of trafficking of arms or drugs.
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World
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Africa
8/7/2023 5:50:38 PM
West Africa's regional bloc says heads of state will meet Thursday to discuss their next steps after Niger's military junta defied the bloc's deadline to reinstate the country's ousted president while its mutinous soldiers closed the country’s airspace and accused foreign powers of preparing an attack.
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World
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Africa
8/7/2023 10:12:48 AM
Niger closed its airspace due to the "threat of intervention" as the junta defied a deadline from the West African bloc ECOWAS to reinstate democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum or face possible military action.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
7/31/2023 11:39:03 AM
The Sudanese civil aviation authority has extended the closure of Sudan's airspace until 15 August, with the exception of humanitarian aid and evacuation flights, Khartoum International Airport announced on Monday.
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World
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International
7/12/2023 11:56:45 AM
North Korea has fired a long-range ballistic missile, the South Korean military said Wednesday, days after Pyongyang threatened to down US spy planes that violated its airspace.
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World
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International
7/8/2023 12:02:50 PM
China’s People’s Liberation Army sent 13 aircraft and 6 vessels into airspace and waters around Taiwan over the past 24 hours as of early Saturday, overlapping with United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s visit to Beijing aimed at mending strained relations.
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World
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Region
4/7/2023 9:49:43 PM
Israel's occupation army said Friday soldiers had shot down a drone that entered its airspace from Lebanon a day after a barrage of rockets was fired into Israel.
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World
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Region
4/2/2023 10:35:36 AM
Israeli airstrikes hit several sites in Syria's Homs provaince early Sunday, wounding five soldiers, Syrian state media reported. Hours later, the Israeli military said it shot down an “aircraft” that crossed from Syria into Israel's airspace.
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World
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Region
3/16/2023 12:47:36 PM
The Pentagon has released footage of what it says is a Russian aircraft conducting an unsafe intercept of a US Air Force surveillance drone in international airspace over the Black Sea.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
2/28/2023 9:21:25 PM
By opening its airspace to Israeli flights, hosting Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, and mediating between Tehran and Washington all at the same time, Oman is the meeting point for the region’s adversaries, writes Ahmed Mustafa
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World
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International
2/16/2023 12:50:52 PM
China's ceremonial parliament has accused American lawmakers of trampling on the sovereignty of other nations after the U.S. passed a measure condemning a suspected Chinese spy balloon's intrusion into U.S. airspace.
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World
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International
2/13/2023 12:24:00 PM
China on Monday said more than 10 U.S. high-altitude balloons have flown in its airspace during the past year without its permission, following Washington's accusation that Beijing operates a fleet of surveillance balloons around the world.
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World
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International
2/12/2023 9:58:50 AM
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday that on his order a US fighter jet shot down an "unidentified object'' that was flying high over the Yukon, acting a day after the US took similar action over Alaska.
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World
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International
2/11/2023 10:59:11 AM
The United States on Friday blacklisted six Chinese entities it said were linked to Beijing's aerospace programs as part of its retaliation over an alleged Chinese spy balloon that traversed U.S. airspace.
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World
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Region
1/14/2023 12:31:00 PM
Lebanese Army announced that it opened fire at an Israeli drone that breached Lebanon's southern airspace and hovered over a military patrol on Firday.
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World
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Region
12/29/2022 12:03:41 PM
President Yoon Suk-yeol said Thursday that South Korea must boost its preparedness to respond to airspace intrusions after the military failed to shoot down five North Korean drones that crossed the border.
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World
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International
12/26/2022 12:01:02 PM
South Korea's military fired warning shots and scrambled aircraft after North Korean drones entered the South's airspace on Monday, South Korean officials said, days after the North launched two ballistic missiles in its latest testing activities.
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World
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Africa
11/7/2022 7:36:41 PM
DR Congo's military has deployed two war planes against M23 rebels in the conflict-torn east, provoking a rebuke Monday from neighboring Rwanda after one jet entered the country's airspace.
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World
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International
9/6/2022 7:47:25 PM
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said Tuesday that China is conducting "cognitive warfare'' by spreading misinformation in addition to its regular military incursions into nearby waters and airspace intended to intimidate the self-governing island.
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