The deadline set by the Iraqi government for Iran-aligned militias to surrender their weapons is approaching, and a series of reports published over the past
The sanctions imposed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury on August 20 against ten individuals exposed an infrastructure that operated to transfer hundreds of
On August 10, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam convened an interministerial meeting to discuss preparations for transporting crude oil and petroleum products from Iraq through
Executive Summary July 2026 was characterized by calculated kinetic escalation and a multi-arena brinkmanship: exchanges of blows between the U.S. and Iran continued, albeit so
The sharp increase in the movement of oil tanker trucks through the al-Tanf crossing in southeastern Syria provides Iraq with an alternative export route, but
Executive Summary The military campaigns against Iran in June 2025 and in February-March 2026 turned Israel’s ports, gas rigs, and oil refineries into clear wartime
On July 16, the Syrian authorities announced that they had foiled an attempt to smuggle weapons intended for Hezbollah through the al-Tanf border crossing on
Executive Summary The past thirty days (late May through late June 2026) have marked significant developments in the Iranian arena, ranging from the signing of
