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Gulf Oil Faces a Two-Strait Trap
The thesis works with two qualifications: the Gulf is not completely sealed because the UAE retains its Fujairah outlet, and American energy companies may benefit while the United States as a whole absorbs higher prices and military costs.The Houthi missile and drone attack claimed against Saudi Aramco facilities in Jizan…
U.S. Starts Rationing Air Defenses Against Iranian Strikes
U.S. commanders are deliberately allowing some Iranian missiles and attack drones through their air defenses, accepting damage to military installations rather than expend interceptors that are growing harder to replace, according to NBC News.Two senior U.S. officials told NBC News that commanders have been choosing which incoming weapons to intercept…
SAF De Facto Rejects US Peace Plan
Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), has dampened prospects for a US-led peace plan, vowing on July 24 in Khartoum North to eliminate the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and declaring no place for the group "after today," according to Sudan Tribune.Burhan's remarks did…
Ukraine Strikes Russian Targets 1,200 Kilometers From Border
Ukrainian forces struck the sanctioned Avitek defense plant in Kirov with an FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile early Friday, killing six workers and injuring 26. The strike, according to Kyiv Independent, hit a facility that is part of the Almaz-Antey conglomerate and produces surface-to-air missile components and parts for Kh-101 cruise…
Iran Warns Ukraine After Caspian Strike
Iran's Foreign Ministry warned Ukraine of unspecified consequences after accusing Kyiv of attacking an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea on July 25, killing one sailor and injuring another, according to Reuters and the ministry's statement, carried in full by Tasnim.The ministry called the attack a violation of Article…
Russian Ally Urges Putin to Freeze War
Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, leader of a country formally allied with Russia through the Collective Security Treaty Organization, publicly urged Vladimir Putin on July 25 to freeze the war in Ukraine.The significance lay not simply in another ceasefire proposal, but in its delivery from inside Moscow's own security bloc –…
US Pauses Iran Strikes After Two-Week Bombing
US Central Command reported no new strikes on Iran as of Saturday morning. The National noted the halt followed 13 consecutive nights of announced attacks on Iranian military targets. The campaign had run without a break since a prior ceasefire collapsed earlier in the month.Trump framed the pause as tied…
