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  • With U.S. Backing, Iraq Pushes for Energy Rapprochement With Saudis

    The Trump administration is urging Iraq to proceed with a project to connect its power grid with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, among steps to reduce Baghdad’s longstanding dependency on Iranian energy, U.S. and Arab officials said. The grid-connection venture has been the subject of intensive consultations in recent months and was discussed during Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s visit to Washington last week.

  • Iran announces locally made ballistic and cruise missiles amid U.S. tensions

    Iran displayed a surface-to-surface ballistic missile on Thursday that Defence Minister Amir Hatami said had a range of 1,400 kilometres and a new cruise missile, ignoring U.S. demands that Tehran halt its missile programme.

  • Reported Loss Of Two U.S. MQ-9 Reapers In Syria Raises Troubling Questions

    Military Times today quotes a defense official reporting that two U.S. drones were lost over Syria following a collision on Tuesday. Unconfirmed pictures from the event indicate that at least one was an MQ-9 Reaper, an expensive, top-end drone used by the U.S. Air Force and CIA for strikes against insurgents. Military site TheDrive reports that two Reapers were lost in the incident.

  • U.S. Seizes Iranian Fuel Cargo for First Time

    The Trump administration has for the first time confiscated cargo in vessels allegedly loaded with Iran fuel in violation of sanctions, U.S. officials said, as it steps up its campaign of maximum pressure against Tehran.

  • U.S. military accuses Iranian forces of boarding Liberian-flagged civilian ship

    A U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the incident took place near the Strait of Hormuz and the ship was eventually released by Iranian forces. The official said the United States military was not involved in anything other than monitoring the situation.

  • Oil companies start to take back crude from U.S. emergency reserve

    Energy companies have begun taking back millions of barrels of oil from the U.S. government’s emergency stockpile after renting storage in the facility to help manage a glut of crude this spring after energy demand collapsed during COVID-19 lockdowns, a Department of Energy website showed on Monday.

  • Oil and OPEC: Shale Job Losses Accelerate in U.S. as Virus Curbs Energy Demand

    The U.S. oilfield-services sector shed 9,344 jobs last month, a 43% increase from June’s losses, the industry-funded trade group said in a report released Monday. That pushed the industry’s total job casualties since the pandemic emerged to 99,253. Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Colorado and New Mexico were the hardest-hit regions for oilfield job cuts, according to the report, which crunched U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data with help from the University of Houston’s Hobby School of Public Affairs. Oilfield employment in American fields hasn’t been this low since March 2017.

  • U.S. senators want to block drone sales to Saudis

    It would amend the Arms Export Control Act to prohibit the export, transfer or trade of many advanced drones except to NATO members, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan and Israel, they said in a news release.

  • U.S. Relations With Iran, 1953–2020

    Onetime allies, the United States and Iran have seen tensions escalate repeatedly in the four decades since the Islamic Revolution.

  • U.S. Examines Whether Saudi Nuclear Program Could Lead to Bomb Effort

    American intelligence agencies are scrutinizing efforts by Saudi Arabia to build up its ability to produce nuclear fuel that could put the kingdom on a path to developing nuclear weapons. Spy agencies in recent weeks circulated a classified analysis about the efforts underway inside Saudi Arabia, working with China, to build industrial capacity to produce nuclear fuel. The analysis has raised alarms that there might be secret Saudi-Chinese efforts to process raw uranium into a form that could later be enriched into weapons fuel, according to American officials.