Iran-backed militias attacked Saudi Arabia's East-West Pipeline in Iraq, potentially closing it for weeks and disrupting 4% of global oil supply. Yemen's Houthis captured Red Sea islands while the U.S. conducted operations costing $33.4 billion through June. China tightened exit controls on citizens and talent to prevent brain drain.
AI executives Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Sam Altman of OpenAI publicly called for slowing AI development due to safety concerns, while Saudi Arabia shut down a critical oil pipeline after drone strikes from Iraq, raising regional stability concerns amid ongoing Middle East tensions.
Judeo-Iraqi Arabic is a variety of Arabic spoken by Iraqi Jews, originating in Iraq and spreading to Israel, the US, UK, Canada, and Australia following Jewish migration. The language had 94,000 speakers in Israel as of 2018, though most Iraqi Jews have since adopted Modern Hebrew as their primary language.
Saudi Arabia's East-West oil pipeline system was struck by projectiles on Thursday, causing fires at pump stations; US officials assessed the drones originated from Iraq. The attack threatens the kingdom's oil exports and regional energy shipping amid escalating Iran-aligned militia activity, with oil prices surging past $100 per barrel.
This coming Friday marks 25 years since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Zeteo plans a week of essays and interviews reflecting on the tragedy and its aftermath in America, the Middle East, and worldwide, featuring contributors Spencer Ackerman, Fatima Bhutto, and Viet Thanh Nguyen, plus interviews with 9/11 victims' mothers and a U.S. general critical of the Iraq invasion.