Saudi Arabia’s oil production and exports have been disrupted, said three sources familiar with the matter, after drone attacks on two Aramco plants on Saturday, including the world’s biggest oil processing facility.
Economy
Biden includes official visit to Saudi Arabia as global crises necessitate tense diplomacy
This week, Biden announced a move that observers had long been expecting: An official visit to Saudi Arabia, effectively thawing diplomatic relations between the countries, and acknowledging that treating the powerful petrostate as a “pariah” MORE
Biden Administration
Senators make bipartisan push to block Biden’s $650M weapons sale to Saudis
From The Hill: Three senators on Thursday made a bipartisan push aimed at blocking a proposed $650 million weapons sale to Saudi Arabia. Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced a joint resolution disapproving of the proposed arms MORE
News
US drone attack in Afghanistan kills 30 farm workers; Taliban bombs a hospital, kills 20
On Thursday, the Taliban claimed responsibility for “a powerful suicide truck bomb that devastated a hospital in southern Afghanistan, ….killing 20 people and wounding 97 others,… while a deadly drone strike in the country’s east MORE