Share This US blames Iran for Saudi strike; big hit for oil prices U.S. tried to build its case Monday that Iran was behind the fiery weekend attack on key Saudi Arabian oil facilities that raised new war worries and sent energy prices spiraling worldwide. Iran denied responsibility, while President Donald Trump said the United […]
READ MOREDrone attacks on Oil fields:half of Saudi Arabia oil supply affected
Relations September 15, 2020 0 COMMENTSShare This Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched drone attacks on the world’s largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia and a major oil field Saturday, sparking huge fires and halting about half of the supplies from the world’s largest exporter of oil. The attacks were the latest of many drone assaults on the kingdom’s oil infrastructure in […]
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Share This Drone attacks have set alight two major oil facilities run by the state-owned company Aramco in Saudi Arabia, state media say. Footage showed a huge blaze at Abqaiq, site of Aramco’s largest oil processing plant, while a second drone attack started fires in the Khurais oilfield. The fires are now under control at […]
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Share This A U.S. military MQ-9 drone was shot down in Yemen’s Dhamar governate, southeast of the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday, the second such incident in recent months.A Houthi military spokesman had earlier said that air defenses had brought down a U.S. drone. The officials, speaking on the condition […]
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Share This President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a U.S. Navy ship had “destroyed” an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz after the aircraft threatened the ship, in the latest incident to stir tensions in the Gulf. Trump told an event in the White House that the drone had flown to within 1,000 […]
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Attack on Iran:Trump ‘approved military strikes against Iran but soon changed his mind’
Relations June 21, 2020 0 COMMENTSShare This President Donald Trump approved retaliatory military strikes against Iran on Thursday before changing his mind, US media reports. The operation was under way “in its initial stage” when Mr Trump changed his decision. The strikes were in response for Iran earlier shooting down a US spy drone, the newspaper said. Iran claims the […]
READ MOREShare This A US military surveillance drone has been shot down by Iranian forces while flying over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said the drone had violated Iranian airspace. But US military said it had been over international waters. IRGC commander-in-chief Maj-Gen Hossein Salami said the downing of the drone […]
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