Middle East
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How Middle East Security Crises Drive Global Trade Deficits and Energy Costs
Escalating regional conflicts are forcing industrial economies to pay record premiums for oil, disrupting trade balances and fueling…
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Iran Maintains Offer to Reopen Strait of Hormuz Amid Stalled Negotiations
Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi says Tehran’s proposal to reopen the vital waterway remains active despite a breakdown in…
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Tony Blair warns Green Party’s ‘Zionism is racism’ vote signals dangerous normalization
Former PM Tony Blair argues that the UK Green Party’s recent resolution denying Israel’s legitimacy marks a shift…
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Israeli Economists Warn West Bank Violence Risks Sweeping International Sanctions
Sixty-one senior Israeli economists caution that surging West Bank settlement expansion and violence could trigger broad economic isolation…
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61 Israeli Economists Warn Settler Violence and Expansion Could Bring More Sanctions
Examine the intricate international legal frameworks and jurisdictional divisions of the West Bank complicating global trade restrictions.
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How the Houthis Evolved from a Zaydi Revivalist Group into a Regional Power
Tracing the political maturation, military expansion, and governance structure of Yemen’s Houthi movement from its 1990s origins to…
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How Houthi Battlefield Gains and Renewed Gulf Intervention Force Iran to Shift Proxy Tactics
Examining how recent Houthi advances in Yemen and a renewed Saudi-UAE alliance threaten to alter Tehran’s regional proxy-war…
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Saudi Arabia and the Houthis: Who is who in the Red Sea blockade war
RIYADH, July 20 — For nearly a decade, the war in Yemen has unfolded as a grinding stalemate,…
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How Iran’s Asymmetric Attacks Are Forcing a Global Reckoning on Strait of Hormuz Security
Iran’s indiscriminate strikes on commercial shipping in the world’s most critical oil chokepoint are reshaping naval defense strategies…
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How Iran-Backed Houthi Forces Sustain Their Arsenal Through Smuggling Networks
Following recent strikes in Hodeidah, an investigation into the logistics of the Houthi weapons supply chain and their…
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How the IRGC Quds Force Sustains the Houthi Movement Through Arms and Training
An investigation into the Quds Force’s role in arming, training, and commanding the Houthi movement as part of…
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Iran Steps Up Attacks on Gulf Shipping as Hormuz Oil Flows Fall Sharply
Hormuz, October 16 The Strait of Hormuz is a place where the sea meets the edge of a…
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Houthi Leadership Council Runs Iran-Backed Movement
The Houthi movement is led by a leadership council, with a complex military and security apparatus
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IRGC Escalates Strait of Hormuz Threats Amid U.S. Election Tensions
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warns of sinking U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz as attacks on…
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Iran–Iraq War Shows How External Threats Can Unite a Divided Nation
The 1980–88 war forged national unity in Iran despite internal fractures, offering a lesson for how external conflicts…
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Two cargo ships sink near Strait of Hormuz as Middle East oil exports fall to 8.3 million barrels daily
Two vessels sunk near Strait of Hormuz in 24 hours amid Houthi escalation, cutting Middle East oil flows…
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Iran Jails Actress Elnaz Shakerdoost for an Instagram Post Mourning the Dead
An appeals court in Tehran has upheld a one-year prison sentence against Elnaz Shakerdoost, one of Iran’s most…
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US and Iran Hold Mediated Talks at UN General Assembly Over Hormuz and War
UNITED NATIONS, September 25 — The diplomatic traffic around this year’s United Nations General Assembly has been relentless,…
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80 Nations at UN Demand Strait of Hormuz Reopen, Condemn Houthi Attacks
UNITED NATIONS, September 24 — Eighty countries demanded the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz in a…
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UN Maritime Chief Warns Attacks on Shipping Threaten Innocent Seafarers
LONDON, September 20 — The head of the United Nations maritime agency has pushed back against the idea…
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EU’s Kallas Urges Settlement Trade Ban, Citing Crimea Precedent
BRUSSELS, September 17 — The European Union’s top diplomat has called on member states to treat illegal Israeli…
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More Than 2,000 Yemenis Flee to Djibouti After Houthi Port Capture
DJIBOUTI, September 15 — More than 2,000 people fleeing Houthi rebels in Yemen have arrived in Djibouti, the…
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Iran, Oman Agree Hormuz Routes, to Brief Gulf States in Muscat
MUSCAT, September 14 — Iran and Oman have agreed on the details of new entry and exit routes…
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Iran-Gulf Hormuz Talks Without the US Postponed a Day Before Planned Oman Meeting
DUBAI, September 13 — Iran is holding talks with Gulf Arab states on a security arrangement for the…
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