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White House And Pentagon Clash Over $80M ReElement Critical Minerals Deal The Pentagon is reconsidering an $80 million conditional loan to rare-earths refiner ReElement Technologies, raising tensions with the White House over efforts to reduce US reliance on China for critical minerals, according to Bloomberg. The loan, announced in November through the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital (OSC), was part of a broader $1.4 billion critical-minerals initiative alongside Vulcan Elements. But officials reviewing the deal have questioned ReElement’s ability to scale production and meet long-term revenue targets, according to people familiar...

Israeli forces continue to operate militarily in southwestern Syria, though exactly what they are attempting to accomplish is increasingly uncertain, with raids into Quneitra and Daraa Governorates involving ill-defined investigations of random homes or people. The weekend operation was near the town of Jamleh, and saw Israeli troops enter Syria to capture a group of […]

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s parliament, has called for the Iranian people to “maintain unity” in the face of the US blockade and other economic pressure, which he warned is aimed at collapsing Iran “from within.” In a statement issued through Iranian media, Ghalibaf said that President Trump “divides the country into two […]