Tit-for-tat strikes resumed, with Iran targeting an American base in Jordan in retaliation for the destruction of 5 oil tankers.

Perim Island sits in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a pinch-point that’s taken on an outsized importance since the war with Iran effectively shuttered the Strait of Hormuz.

Saudi Arabia’s oil production plunged last month as threats by Iran-backed Houthi rebels disrupted exports from the kingdom’s west coast, at a time when shipments through the Strait of Hormuz waterway in the Persian Gulf remain constrained.

Vice President JD Vance received sobering assessments about the war that did not line up with what he, along with President Trump and other top administration officials, were saying publicly.

Last year P w C, a consultancy, predicted that across the Gulf data-centre capacity would rise fourfold within five years, to about 4 GW. The outbreak of war has not halted the boom. HUMAIN, an AI company established by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign-wealth fund,

U.S. says it hit three Iranian oil tankers”: On Friday, when asked about the war in Iran, President Donald Trump replied with the following statement: “I call it a military conflict, because it’s small potatoes for us.

A local woman rides a bicycle on April 18, 2024, in front of a building destroyed by a Russian airstrike in the frontline town of Orikhiv, Ukraine. Credit: AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko A Russian foreign policy expert, Fyodor Lukyanov, stated the other day in ...

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America’s “forever war” in Afghanistan began only weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks and lasted just short of 20 years, ending in the chaos of Aug. 15, 2021, when the capital, Kabul, fell once again to the Taliban.