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From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of the world’s most powerful royal family, and how the struggle for succession produced Saudi Arabia’s charismatic but […]
That’s not hilarious Secretary Granholm
WAEL MAHDI November 06, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/p6tku The response that US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm gave to Bloomberg’s Tom Keene on Friday was truly shocking, typical, and full of […]
Iran seized Vietnamese oil tanker: US officials
This frame grab shows Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard speed boats, center, in front of a US warship, left, amid the seizure of a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker, right, in the Gulf […]
IRGC Navy aborts U.S. move to steal Iranian Oil in Oman Sea
IRGC Navy aborts U.S. move to steal Iranian oil in Oman Sea Politics November 3, 2021 TEHRAN – The national TV announced on Wednesday at noon time that the Islamic […]
How can Israel be a good neighbor?
BY HAKKI ÖCAL COLUMNS OCT 25, 2021 12:05 AM GMT+3Commercial and residential high-rise properties along the beach in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2, 2021. (Photo by Getty Images) It is no wonder […]
What’s behind the dispute between Saudi Arabia and the UAE?
The UAE has rejected a Saudi-led deal at a meeting of OPEC+, the latest sign of friction between the Gulf neighbours. A recent dispute at an OPEC+ meeting has exposed […]
OPEC+ leaves oil market wondering after postponing meeting indefinitely
The OPEC+ alliance was unable to reach an agreement last week on extending the current oil output deal. (Reuters/File) Short Url https://arab.news/4dxfh The OPEC+ alliance was unable to reach an […]
How Erbil and Baghdad could fuel Iraq’s recovery
Author HAFED AL-GHWELL January 16, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/zy6tz After Daesh’s defeat and expulsion from Iraq, an emergent crop of post-civil war leaders became well positioned to reap a political, […]
American soft coup against Iraqi people
Politics December 31, 2020 – TEHRAN TIMES TEHRAN – Iran has agreed to resume gas exports to neighboring Iraq, thereby saving Iraq from a widespread power outage. The agreement to […]
Last stand in Yemen as battle for oil-rich province rages
By AFP – Sep 26,2020 – JORDAN TIMES Eight-year-old displaced Yemeni girl, Samar Ali Ahmed, weighing nine-and-a-half kilogrammes and suffering from acute malnutrition, is photographed in Hajjah Governorate, in northern […]
How a rush for Mediterranean gas threatens to push Greece and Turkey into war
Deepening dispute between Nato allies has dragged in neighbours and is in danger of spiralling out of control by Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor Fri 11 Sep 2020 An increasingly fractious standoff over […]
Why cash-strapped Turkey’s gas grab is a lot of hot air
FAISAL FAEQ August 26, 2020 Turkey’s drilling ship, Fatih, is sailing through Bosphorus toward Black Sea in this May. 29, 2020 file photo, in Istanbul. Turkish President Recep […]
Saudi Arabia Holds Back Oil to Pakistan after Imran Khan Govt Threatens to Split OIC over Kashmir
File photo of Pakistan PM Imran Khan. The loan package included a provision under which Saudi Arabia granted Pakistan $3.2 billion worth of oil, a year on deferred payments. IANS ISLAMABAD/NEW […]
Saudi Arabia’s radical new oil strategy
Earlier this year, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman introduced a new strategy that was designed to further monetise the country’s oil reserves. If it continues, the dynamics of […]
Turkey to launch oil exploration in East Med soon under pact with Libyan government
t by Daily Sabah with Wires ISTANBUL Energy May 29, 2020 Turkey’s first drilling vessel Fatih sails under July 15 Martyrs Bridge, formerly known as the Bosporus Bridge, as it […]
A lost year in Saudi Arabia
The Economist – The oil crash and the pandemic have roiled plans to focus on diplomacy and growth Apr 4th 2020 BEIRUT THE YEAR had got off to a good […]
Saudi Arabia buys stakes in four big European oil firms – source By Ron Bousso
By Ron Bousso 9th April 2020 LONDON (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), has accumulated stakes in four major European oil companies, […]
There are dark geopolitical motives behind the Cyprus rape case
The alleged attack fell foul of one of the most important stand-offs in the east Mediterranean, involving power politics conducted far above any middle rank Cypriot judge Denis MacShane @DenisMacShane […]
Trump will come last in the big Mediterranean gas race if Turkey and Russia get their way in Libya
Just like Syria before it, losing Tripoli to the Russians and the Turks will get the US nowhere in terms of maintaining a significant stake over energy supplies into Europe […]
Anger at Erdogan’s ‘sea grab’ in the Mediterranean
Updated 06 December 2019 MENEKSE TOKYAY December 06, 2019 01:11 1068 Cyprus petitioned the International Court of Justice in The Hague on Thursday to safeguard its offshore mineral rights […]
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