Iranian Kurdish Groups Deny Receiving US Arms After Trump's 'Guns For Protesters' Remark

President Donald Trump said that he was mulling a reduction of US troops in Germany following Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s saying Iran had humiliated the US.  “The United States is studying and reviewing the possible reduction of Troops in Germany, with a determination to be made over the next short period of time,” Trump wrote on […]

Gulf War Leaves $58 Billion Repair Bill And Global Equipment Crunch Last week, JPMorgan - which correctly noted that headlines tend to focus on the fact of damage not the scale - was the first itemize the damage from the war in Iran, finding more than 60 energy infrastructure assets in the Gulf have been affected by drone and missile strikes, with roughly 50 sustaining different degrees of damage.  What about the actual dollar value of the inflicted damage? According to Rystad, repair and restoration costs for energy-linked infrastructure as a result of...

Ukraine's Former Energy Minister Charged With Money Laundering As 'Operation Midas' Expands Months after Ukraine was shaken by a sweeping corruption probe into state nuclear giant Energoatom, and subject of international embarrassment given it even touched Zelensky's office, former Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko has now been formally charged - after authorities detained him while he was allegedly attempting to leave the country. Halushchenko had been suspended by Zelensky in mid-November, when news of the scandal first hit global headlines. On Monday, Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s...