Trump lashes out at allies over lack of support

US President Donald Trump expressed frustration overnight with allies who have been unwilling to do more to support the US war effort, telling them to “go get your own oil” as the conflict with Iran and its closure of the Strait of Hormuz sent average US gas prices past US$4 a gallon. The social media … Read more

Trump lashes out at allies as Iran war drives fuel prices higher

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Donald Trump expressed frustration Tuesday with allies who have been unwilling to do more to support the U.S. war effort, telling them to “go get your own oil” as the conflict with Iran and its closure of the Strait of Hormuz sent average U.S. gas prices past $4 … Read more

Iran war pushes U.S. gas price over $4 a gallon as Iranian drone hits loaded tanker off Dubai

President Trump dropped a hint on Tuesday, in the context of another dig at U.S. allies in Europe who have declined to join the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, that he could be prepared to abandon efforts to force Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to all shipping traffic. After issuing increasingly aggressive threats to … Read more

Trump renews threat to Iran’s power plants as war sends oil prices soaring again

At least two Chinese cargo ships that were blocked by Iran last week as they tried to transit the Strait of Hormuz managed to traverse the key waterway on Monday, according to tracking data from the MarineTraffic website. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps naval forces appeared to make an example of the vessels, and one … Read more

The real risk in Trump’s threat to destroy Iran’s desalination plants

US President Donald Trump today threatened to target Iran’s energy infrastructure, including the country’s desalination plants. Such a move — and Iran’s possible targeting of the plants of its Gulf Arab neighbours — could have devastating impacts across the water-starved Middle East. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said if a deal to end … Read more

Land Day in Gaza: Between memory and the fight for what remains | Israel-Palestine conflict

Gaza City, Gaza Strip – Inside a tent pitched on a small patch of land, Sawsan al-Jadba sits with her children on the final strip of her property, just metres away from the rest of her seized land. Before Israel’s 2023 genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the 54-year-old owned three plots of … Read more

Trump threatens Iran’s civilian infrastructure if deal not reached ‘shortly’

US President Donald Trump on Monday (local time) threatened widespread destruction of Iran’s energy resources and other vital infrastructure, including desalination plants that supply drinking water, if a deal to end the war is not reached “shortly”. Iran, meanwhile, struck a key water and electrical plant in Kuwait, and an oil refinery in Israel came … Read more