News and Analysis 8/16/26

Qatar denies holding any Iranian pilots while Kuwait says four captives “affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards … were suspected of planning hostile actions against the country”:

“The United Arab Emirates accused Iran on Saturday of attacking another vessel belonging to its state oil company while it transited through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday”:

Settler violence and Israeli war crimes continue:

Official describe replacing cobblestones in “historic pedestrian areas … with asphalt … as traffic management, but Iran International reporter Mehdi Sepahvand’s reporting suggests it could make the areas easier for security forces to penetrate and control during unrest”:

“The decision comes after Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to review state grants to DFW International Airport and Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport over religious accommodations”:

“The person they tapped for the backchannel was Nechirvan Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan region in Iraq, who had something very few others do: the trust of both U.S. and IRGC leaders”:

“[A]cts of foreign aggression—disguised as defense against a nuclear Iran—have achieved the exact inverse of their stated intent”:


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