Trump's midterm gamble handed the Red Sea to Tehran
Donald Trump believes the world is a series of real estate deals where the right amount of pressure on a ledger can force a tenant to vacate.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
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Saudi Arabia shuts key oil pipeline after drone attack launched from Iraq
The fiction that a kingdom built on petrodollars can indefinitely insulate itself from the fires it helped stoke has finally gone up in black smoke over Medina.
By Sophie Naimi ·
Ali al-Zaidi's councils cannot protect the East-West pipeline
The language of diplomacy is often just a polite way of documenting a grievance before you settle it.
By Adele Rutherford ·