Tag: MiddleEast
Iraq, Syria Sign Deal to Revive Mediterranean Oil Route
Iraq and Syria signed a memorandum of understanding in Washington on Friday to rehabilitate the long-idled Kirkuk–Baniyas crude oil pipeline, advancing plans to reopen a Mediterranean export route as the war around the Strait of Hormuz exposes Baghdad's dependence on Gulf shipping lanes.The memorandum was among roughly 50 agreements worth…
US Strikes Iran for Seventh Straight Night
The United States carried out strikes on Iran for a seventh consecutive night on Friday, according to Euronews. US Central Command said its forces hit surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage, and maritime capabilities, while continuing to enforce a naval blockade of Iranian ports.Iran responded in kind. Iran's…
Russia Gains From Iran War Without Fighting
Russia's Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, offered perhaps the clearest insight into Moscow's thinking from a podium rather than a battlefield. Briefing reporters on July 15, Peskov said the Kremlin was watching Washington's growing preoccupation with the war against Iran, suggesting the conflict had inevitably shifted American attention away from Ukraine.…
Can Trump’s Middle East Peace Survive?
The Abraham Accords – the 2020 agreements brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump in his first term – made the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain the first Arab states in a quarter-century to recognise Israel, with Morocco following and Sudan beginning a process it never completed. They were one of…
Yemen’s Houthis Warn Saudi Arabia of New War
Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi threatened a major escalation against Saudi Arabia in a televised speech Thursday, warning of a "different war" if Riyadh continues what he called its "siege and aggression" against Yemen, according to Al Bawaba. He said Saudi oil facilities and other strategic infrastructure would become targets…
Sixth Night of US Strikes Hits Iran
US forces began a new wave of strikes against Iran at 2 p.m. ET Thursday, the sixth consecutive night, "to further degrade Iranian military capabilities" CENTCOM said in a statement posted on X. CENTCOM added that the strikes hit "dozens" of coastal surveillance, air defense, and logistics targets, and that…
US Strikes Six Bridges Near Iran’s Key Port
The United States expanded its sixth night of strikes against Iran into a campaign against inland logistics, hitting the Kahurestan and Giriyeh bridges on the Bandar Abbas–Lar highway, the main road link between Iran's largest port and Shiraz, along with a railway junction and a maritime control tower at Chabahar,…
Syria Intercepts Weapons Shipment Allegedly Bound for Hezbollah
Syrian customs authorities said Thursday they intercepted a shipment of advanced weapons concealed inside an oil tanker at the al-Tanf border crossing with Iraq, describing it as one of the largest arms seizures since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's government.According to Syrian officials, inspectors discovered long-range missiles, guided anti-tank weapons…
Blockade Bites as US Strikes Gulf Island
US Central Command struck Greater Tunb Island on July 15, targeting cruise missile storage and launch sites along with coastal defense systems in a 90-minute wave, according to AP. Iran seized the island along with Abu Musa and Lesser Tunb from what would become the UAE in 1971, and the…
Morocco Joins Gaza Stabilization Force as Peace Stalls
Morocco signed an agreement in Rabat on July 15 to join the planned International Stabilization Force (ISF) for Gaza — a postwar security framework taking shape while the peace it is meant to support remains unsettled.The signing was attended by Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, senior defence officials, Board of Peace…
