UAE State Oil Company Head Says Hormuz Bypass Pipeline Nearly 50 Percent Complete

US Africa Command has launched at least 68 airstrikes in Somalia this year, the command told Antiwar.com in an email on Tuesday, putting it on track to break the record for annual US airstrikes in the country that the Trump administration set last year at 124. President Trump oversaw a dramatic escalation of US airstrikes […]

A senior advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is giving Hamas 60 days to disarm. Hamas has stated that it will only disarm as part of the process of the creation of an independent Palestine.  Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs said Monday that Israel was giving Hamas 60 days to disarm out of respect […]

Winter Is Coming: Europe Faces Twin Diesel And NatGas Crunch Samantha Dart, co-head of global commodities research at Goldman Sachs, began the week by telling Bloomberg TV that the global diesel-supply crunch is "what keeps her up at night." She followed up Wednesday with a client note warning that European natural gas storage levels are also lagging the seasonal average ahead of the winter heating period. Benchmark TTF futures have fallen 7% this week to about 54 euros per megawatt-hour, but Dart maintained her 60-euro balance-of-third-quarter forecast. She noted that...