Highlights US still relies on oil imports from Middle East, OPEC Saudi Arabia is second-largest import source for US Security of Iraq’s oil industry is a concern The US still Continue Reading
The walls of the American Embassy in Baghdad were still on fire and members of pro-Iranian armed groups were chanting threats outside when Iraq’s prime minister tried to explain the Continue Reading
China and the US are expected to sign phase one of their trade deal Wednesday at the White House, with the timing potentially complicated by increased US sanctions pressure on Continue Reading
The US on Friday announced new sanctions against Iranian officials and the country’s construction, manufacturing, textiles and mining sectors in response to Iranian strikes on US bases in Iraq on Continue Reading
Iran said on Saturday its military had mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian plane killing all 176 aboard, saying air defenses were fired in error while on high alert in the Continue Reading
The United States imposed more sanctions on Iran on Friday in retaliation for its missile attack on U.S. forces in Iraq this week and vowed to tighten the economic screws Continue Reading
“Deterrence is the art of producing in the mind of the enemy the fear … to attack,” said Dr Strangelove in the classic cold war movie. Some of Donald Trump’s Continue Reading
The Trump administration refused again Friday to recognize Iraq’s call to withdraw all U.S. troops, saying that any discussion with Baghdad would center on whatever force size the United States Continue Reading
A cyberattack with a data-wiping malware originating in Iran hit Bahrain’s oil company Bapco in late December, ZDNet reports , citing unnamed sources. According to the report, the attack only Continue Reading
Washington on Friday spurned an Iraqi request to prepare to pull out its troops, amid heightened U.S.-Iranian tensions after the U.S. killing of an Iranian commander in Baghdad, and said Continue Reading
