For a few weeks this summer you could look at the oil price and forget the Iran war had ever happened. In June America signed a deal with Iran, waiving sanctions on its enemy’s oil exports in exchange for ships’ safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. As tankers rushed to exit the Gulf, a…
Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Monday claimed responsibility for attacks on several Saudi oil facilities. The Iran-backed group said the strikes were carried out in retaliation for Saudi drone incursions into Yemeni airspace, Reuters reported. Sailors from the navy of Yemen’s Aden-based internationally recognised government stand at machine-gun positions aboard a vessel patrolling a shipping lane…
GE Aerospace has partnered with Arizona-based StandardAero to help build and sustain the CT7-2E1 propulsion systems that will power the UK Armed Forces’ New Medium Helicopter (NHM) fleet. The collaboration follows the July selection of GE’s CT7 engine by Leonardo to power 23 AW149 multirole airframes it was contracted to deliver to the…
For the first time in nearly two weeks, America has not launched new strikes against Iran in the past 48 hours. The lull comes after 13 consecutive nights of American bombing and 12 attacks by Iran on ships in the Persian Gulf since July 6th, essentially shutting the Strait of Hormuz once more. The ceasefire…
One day in May, Sergio Gor, President Trump’s special envoy for South Asia, appeared at the base camp of Mount Everest. Dressed in a black jacket emblazoned with “Trump Force One,” Gor sang the praises of the drone displayed next to him. An operator uses a heavy-lift drone to clear trash from the Everest base…
MIAMI (AP) — Genevieve became a Category 5 hurricane early Monday, the first in the East Pacific region in two years, forecasters said. It is expected to stay far out to sea on a course roughly parallel with the Mexico coast. Genevieve had maximum sustained winds of 160 mph (260 kph), according to the National…
By Nayera Abdallah and Elwely Elwelly DUBAI, July 27 (Reuters) – Iran said on Monday it was still in control of the Strait of Hormuz and not seeking to resume peace talks with the United States, after President Donald Trump halted a two-week bombing campaign that his top brass told him had run its course. …
MOSCOW, July 27 (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Monday that it had not seen any specific information regarding new proposals for a peace settlement in Ukraine ahead of a meeting in Washington between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Trump and Zelenskiy are due to hold talks in Washington on Tuesday….
As russia prepared to invade Ukraine in 2022, American and British intelligence agencies sounded the alarm. Yet some of their European counterparts were unconvinced. Among the sceptics was Sweden’s military-intelligence service, known as must, which had long prided itself on its expert knowledge of Russia’s armed forces. Along with spy chiefs in France and Germany,…
What a difference two years makes. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D., Wash.), in red, with members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus at the U.S. Capitol. More than 100 House Democrats voted for an amendment this month that sought to cut off military financing for Israel. The vote, which failed, was seen as a key barometer of…