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A 2019 framework agreement expanded American military access to Omani facilities at Salalah and Duqm. Oman controls the southern side of the strait, which...
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Dr. Andrew Latham argues the Strategic Petroleum Reserve — down 99 million barrels to a 1983 low, worth about sixteen days of prewar Hormuz...
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Trump's 20% Hormuz toll survived barely a day before being swapped for Gulf investment deals — a reversal the piece likens to his tariff...
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Ukraine's strike on Omsk — Russia's largest refinery, 400,000 barrels a day, once thought too deep to reach — caps a deliberate strategy: hit...
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U.S. strikes pounded Iran's southern coastline for five hours Monday night, clearing the way for the naval blockade resuming at 4 p.m. Tuesday. During...
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Russia's Agriculture Ministry says grain will move by land and alternative ports after Ukrainian drones hit 11 more vessels overnight — 116 in nine...
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Defense expert Harrison Kass examines why months of strikes, blockades, and diplomacy haven't reopened the Strait of Hormuz: Iran spent decades building dispersed, survivable...
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Russia is bolting land-based jammers, small-target radar, and anti-drone netting onto its warships as Ukraine's maritime drone campaign chokes the Sea of Azov. Civilian...
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Brandon Weichert argues Trump's repeated Iran-war pauses may be about something unspoken: America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve is hitting 'bottom barrel,' Cushing is nearing its...
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Trump reinstated the 'Iranian Blockade' with a 20% Hormuz toll — and Iran's foreign minister mockingly agreed, claiming Tehran is the strait's true paid...