To be effective, American sanctions must be enforced wherever they apply — including in the High North. Early in September, two U.S.-sanctioned vessels left China carrying the last two power...
Tehran saw its leverage slipping away — and expanded the battlefield to attack the United States and its allies from a different angle. That’s the takeaway from this week’s fighting in Yemen,...
Saudi Arabia announced on September 11 that the East-West Crude Oil Pipeline, its main Hormuz-bypass route to the Red Sea, was closed following multiple drone attacks the day before in the country’s...
Basra, Iraq’s oil export hub perched on the Persian Gulf, is busier than it has been since conflict between the United States and Iran began in February. According to Bloomberg, satellite imagery...
Iraq relies on oil revenue for over 90 percent of its budget. With exports hovering at around half of the usual 3.4 million barrels per day (bpd) that were exported before Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz,...
All the noise around Iran’s supposed stranglehold on oil supplies transiting through the Strait of Hormuz is missing the point. The reality is that the combination of Operations Midnight...
As the United States pulls back from Europe, it is leaving NATO countries like Romania, on the Alliance’s eastern periphery, vulnerable to Russian aggression. Turning to Brussels, unfortunately would...
Baghdad’s failure to address drone attacks from Iran-backed Iraqi militias is forcing other countries to act. American and Saudi forces, in a first for the ongoing war with Iran, launched joint...
Saudi Arabia has weathered Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz by relying on its east-west pipeline to send crude from the kingdom’s energy-rich eastern province to the Red Sea terminal...
China and Russia purport to have a “no limits” partnership, but recent developments in the Arctic suggest otherwise. Citing a Russian government presentation originally reported by Russia’s Vedomosti...
Iraq is working to shore up the economic stability and security of the Kurdistan Region in the wake of months of drone and missile attacks. More than 800 attacks, many assumed to have originated...
Two days after United States Central Command launched Project Freedom, a naval operation to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump paused the operation. Trump...
Iraq’s reliance on oil exports through the now-closed Strait of Hormuz may spell financial disaster for Baghdad, which has limited options to avert a crisis. More than 94 percent of Iraq’s oil exports...
Washington should define success not as traffic resumed, but as Tehran stripped of the practical ability to use the strait as a recurring instrument of leverage.
The war in Iran indicates that the fight over controlling global energy flows is far from over. A close partner of Tehran, Beijing is no doubt factoring lessons from the conflict into its designs to...
Iran-aligned militias in Iraq have been attacking the country’s oil sector while the world’s attention focuses on the Strait of Hormuz.
Preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is a worthy goal in and of itself. But President Trump’s campaign against the Iranian regime carries far broader implications — many of them...
Gulf energy exports have largely ground to a standstill, but the United Arab Emirates (UAE) remains open for business. Emirati Crown Prince Khaled Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan concluded a three-day visit...