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Trump’s Iran Conflict Cuts the World off from a Crucial Energy Source
Countries across Europe and Asia are facing a potential energy crisis after an Irani drone strike shut down Qatar’s exports of liquefied natural gas this week, cutting off nat...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Defense / Middle East Security
$4.2m U.S. Torpedo Detonates Under Iranian Warship in Historic ‘No Mercy’ StrikeA multi-million-dollar U.S. Navy torpedo detonated underneath an Iranian warship in a nighttime submarine strike off Sri Lanka’s southern coast — an attack, War Secretary Pete...
By Tom Shugart
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Ask Politifact: What Does the Iran War Mean for Us Gasoline Prices?
When President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address in late February, he pointed to his efforts to reduce the price of a key consumer product: gasoline....
By Rachel Ziemba
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Defense / Middle East Security
Why Iran’s Warship ‘Didn’t Have a Chance’ Against a Los Angeles-Class SubmarineThe U.S. military’s operations against Iran reached a new level of intensity on Tuesday when an American submarine torpedoed an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, marking th...
By Tom Shugart
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Trump’s Shifting Iran Strategies Risk a Chaotic Global Endgame
In the opening days of the Iran war, US President Donald Trump and his team have offered a series of often changing objectives for the campaign....
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Middle East Security
How Tanking, Airlift Could Be Strained by Iran OpsAs US armed forces grind through combat in Iran, some officials have raised concerns about America’s munitions stockpile. But experts warn that a perhaps less obvious constrai...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Middle East Security
Middle East War Could Be Decided by Who Runs Out of Missiles or Interceptors First, Analysts SayThe outcome and duration of the war in the Middle East may be decided by a grim calculus based on the size of Iran’s drone and missile stocks v vital air defence munitions hel...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Middle East Security
Pentagon IDs 4 American Troops Killed in KuwaitThe Pentagon on Tuesday identified four of the six American troops killed in the opening hours of the war with Iran....
By Molly Campbell
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Oil Surges, Gas Tops $3 Nationwide as War Heats Up. What Comes Next?Oil prices traded higher March 3 as the U.S.-Israel-Iran war widened, setting up steeper prices for some of the items American consumers depend on....
By Rachel Ziemba
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The Gulf Next Door
They say that if you don’t like Dubai, you won’t like the future. That’s usually a note of cultural snobbery — the shiny, booming expat city is a place for “social media hotel...
By Richard Fontaine
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UAE Lenders Suffer Outages After Amazon Data Centre Hit by ‘Objects’
Banking customers in the United Arab Emirates have reported disruption to banking apps in the wake of missile and drone attacks from Iran....
By Rachel Ziemba
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Trump Embraces U.S. Military Power After Years of Caution
In his three runs for the presidency, Donald J. Trump, more than any other candidate, spoke of the limits of U.S. military power, especially in the Middle East....
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Middle East Security
Trump Faces Race to Defeat Iran Before U.S. and West Run Out of Missiles and InterceptorsDonald Trump was warned that America's stockpile of missiles and interceptors could run dry if his war in Iran is prolonged, sources say....
By Becca Wasser
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Defense / Middle East Security
U.S. Races to Accomplish Iran Mission Before Munitions Run OutWhen the U.S. military’s top general laid out the risks to President Trump of launching a major and extended attack on Iran, one of the issues he flagged was America’s stockpi...
By Becca Wasser
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The Iranian Force Built to Defend the Regime Now Faces the Ultimate Test
U.S. and Israeli airstrikes killed many of Iran’s top leaders in just hours, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But the huge security apparatus they oversaw to e...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Middle East Security
Defensive Munition Shortages to Shape Attack on IranLimited supplies of critical defensive munitions to protect US forces and allies from Tehran’s missiles are likely to shape the military offensive against Iran, according to o...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump’s Threat of 15% Tariffs Adds to Gulf’s ‘Macroeconomic Volatility'US President Donald Trump’s threat this weekend to raise global tariffs to 15 per cent from 10 per cent adds to macroeconomic volatility for the Gulf region, although any impa...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Defense / Middle East Security
IDF Says Forces on High Alert amid Tensions with Iran, No Change to Public AdvisoriesThe IDF addressed the public on Friday through IDF spokesperson Effie Defrin, reassuring citizens about their readiness amid escalating tensions with Iran....
By Becca Wasser
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Defense / Middle East Security
The ‘Incredibly Significant’ U.S. Military Forces Surrounding Iran“This is a build-up like what we saw right before the Iraq war” in 2003, particularly in terms of air power, said Becca Wasser, a military strategy expert at the Center for a ...
By Becca Wasser
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Defense / Middle East Security
Trump’s Threatened Strikes to Push Iran Deal Risk BackfiringPresident Donald Trump said he is considering limited military strikes to pressure Iran into signing a new nuclear deal, but bombing the country may have the opposite effect, ...
By Becca Wasser