The US Maritime Administration has issued an advisory warning of the possibility of Iranian attacks on US ships in Middle Eastern waters after a US military strike in Baghdad on Continue Reading
Iran launched missiles at U.S.-led forces in Iraq early on Wednesday, retaliating for the U.S. drone strike on an Iranian commander whose killing last week stoked fears of a new Continue Reading
While all are distracted by the vast display of smoke and mirrors surrounding the US-Iran conflict, General Haftar is taking control of Libya–and all its oil wealth–and the Turks are Continue Reading
The American obsession with Iran is about oil and natural gas. If these two resources had been absent, it is hard to imagine such an intense American focus on the Continue Reading
The planned arrival of Turkish military advisers in Libya should bolster the internationally recognized government, but may not be enough to turn the tide of a conflict in which eastern-based Continue Reading
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wept in grief with hundreds of thousands of mourners thronging Tehran’s streets on Monday for the funeral of military commander Qassem Soleimani, killed by Continue Reading
Iran’s clerical leadership, under “Supreme Leader” Ayatollah Ali HoseiniKhamene‘i, is expected to make rapid, significant, and symbolic responses to the targeted killing in Baghdad on January 3, 2019, of Iranian Continue Reading
Chevron has temporarily evacuated expatriate staff and contractors from Iraqi Kurdistan in response to the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and heightened tensions in the Middle East, but said Continue Reading
US President Donald Trump threatened to slap sanctions on Iraq after the parliament in Baghdad voted to kick foreign troops out of OPEC’s second largest oil producer and Iran decided Continue Reading
Relations between Iraq and the U.S. are descending into uncertainty and turmoil, as Prime Minister Adil Abd al-Mahdi formally notified the U.S. on Monday that he intends to implement a Continue Reading
