The Iraq War saw the use of commercial military forces — mercenaries — to an extensive degree unprecedented in the modern era. One of the military contracting firms, Blackwater (now Continue Reading
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund has made its second major investment in a US electric vehicles maker, striking a $1bn deal to provide much-needed financing for Tesla-rival Lucid Motors on Continue Reading
Iraq’s oil production will only grow marginally over the next 10 years despite its potential capacity, which stands at as much as 7 million bpd, an analyst from IHS Markit Continue Reading
Russia and Saudi Arabia will continue co-operating in the long term, including on the design of a framework for the relations between OPEC and its external partners, a Russian Energy Continue Reading
Highlights Kurdish deal would boost exports 400,000 b/d Progress on crude trading JVs with IOCs Baghdad — Iraq can increase oil production “immediately” to support the market ahead of the Continue Reading
A report from Reuters suggests that India has plans to trim imports from Iran significantly in September and October, a move intended to satisfy the hawkish American government ahead of Continue Reading
Ali Alomari, shown in an image posted on his Facebook page in May, 2017, is a TV preacher who was arrested one year ago in a Saudi roundup of imams Continue Reading
Saudi Arabia is reported to have purchased the Iron Dome missile defence system from Israel signaling a rapprochement between the two countries, according to several diplomatic sources quoted in Al-Khaleej Continue Reading
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia, the United States and Russia can between them raise global output in the next 18 months to compensate for falling oil supplies from Iran and Continue Reading
The U.S. will find it difficult to cut Iran’s oil exports completely as the oil market is already tight and rival producers cannot make up the shortfall, a top Iranian Continue Reading
