Report: Military Preparing For Weeks-Long War Against Iran

Baghdad's Green Zone Locked Down As Officials Arrested In Corruption Sweep Beyond Sunday's Iranian drone and missile attacks targeting Bahrain and Kuwait, launched in response to earlier U.S. airstrikes, Hormuz shipping traffic remains stable but well below last week's peak, when 57 vessels transited the strait on Wednesday. With maritime flows stable through the critical waterway, attention now shifts to Iraq, where a widening corruption sweep inside Baghdad's Green Zone could become the next area of focus. Iraq's state-run Iraqi News Agency reported that several political figures were arrested in...

US Sanctions 3 Groups Accused Of Supporting Far-Left Terrorism Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on three organizations it accuses of supporting far-left terrorism. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announces a new set of sanctions against Iran, describing them as "an economic D-Day," in the Cash Room at the Treasury Department in Washington, on Aug. 24, 2026. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control on Aug. 26 sanctioned Italy-based Autistici/Inventati, the UK-based Palestine Action, and the transnational organization Masar Badil under executive...

Diesel Crunch Set To Worsen As Refining Capacity Falls Short, Industry Warns The global diesel market - already trading at record prices - is set to further tighten in the coming months and keep fuel prices high, raising the prices of all goods and threatening the inflation targets of the central banks. Industry officials, who gathered at the APPEC petroleum conference in Singapore this week, warned that the market has not seen the worst of the diesel crisis yet. Analysts say the real stress in oil markets is in the diesel...