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claimed strikes on oil facilities in Jizan and Yanbu.
In Iraq, months of accusations that Iran-backed militias were launching drones from Iraqi soil culminated this week as Saudi Arabia joined the US in direct, public strikes, for the first time.
On this week's Beyond the Headlines, we ask what this means for the wider US-Iran war, with Douglas Silliman, former US ambassador to Iraq, Hasan Alhasan, senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and Elizabeth Dent, senior fellow at the Washington Institute.]]></video:description><video:publication_date>2026-07-31T13:16:00+00:00</video:publication_date></video:video></url><url><loc>https://www.thenationalnews.com/video/vjiZZrph/europes-wildfires-are-getting-worse/</loc><video:video><video:content_loc>https://cdn.jwplayer.com/videos/vjiZZrph-xv27PA1r.mp4</video:content_loc><video:duration>86</video:duration><video:thumbnail_loc>https://www.thenationalnews.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.jwplayer.com%2Fv2%2Fmedia%2FvjiZZrph%2Fposter.jpg%3Fwidth%3D480%26thumbnail_version%3D1?auth=5a6d48a24e91cfede7d88d793fca3823490e6fa2b430f25497e9d4719b1be17c&amp;smart=true&amp;width=480</video:thumbnail_loc><video:title><![CDATA[Europe's wildfires are getting worse]]></video:title><video:publication_date>2026-07-31T13:14:54+00:00</video:publication_date></video:video></url><url><loc>https://www.thenationalnews.com/video/rMF7a7eZ/risk-is-global-war-make-no-mistake/</loc><video:video><video:content_loc>https://cdn.jwplayer.com/videos/rMF7a7eZ-xv27PA1r.mp4</video:content_loc><video:duration>1343</video:duration><video:thumbnail_loc>https://www.thenationalnews.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.jwplayer.com%2Fv2%2Fmedia%2FrMF7a7eZ%2Fposter.jpg%3Fwidth%3D480%26thumbnail_version%3D3?auth=d6edb5a3f7255202a8e45b37deaeabe5f49973eb41bd3516091ec13211732d69&amp;smart=true&amp;width=480</video:thumbnail_loc><video:title><![CDATA[Risk is 'global war, make no mistake']]></video:title><video:description><![CDATA[Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo tells Manus Cranny why Gulf states will have to join American efforts to fundamentally change Iran]]></video:description><video:publication_date>2026-08-02T10:38:00+00:00</video:publication_date></video:video></url><url><loc>https://www.thenationalnews.com/video/clrLDQzK/iran-conflict-is-global-war-says-mike-pompeo/</loc><video:video><video:content_loc>https://cdn.jwplayer.com/videos/clrLDQzK-xv27PA1r.mp4</video:content_loc><video:duration>102</video:duration><video:thumbnail_loc>https://www.thenationalnews.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.jwplayer.com%2Fv2%2Fmedia%2FclrLDQzK%2Fposter.jpg%3Fwidth%3D480%26thumbnail_version%3D2?auth=49dc9330515e12b388351ae41bec652d223429d400ff996464aeb918baa43bd1&amp;smart=true&amp;width=480</video:thumbnail_loc><video:title><![CDATA[Iran conflict is 'global war', says Mike Pompeo]]></video:title><video:description><![CDATA[Former US secretary of state tells The Inside Brief that Iran, China and Russia are collaborating to 'undermine western civilisation']]></video:description><video:publication_date>2026-07-30T21:00:00+00:00</video:publication_date></video:video></url><url><loc>https://www.thenationalnews.com/video/bof96kDx/iraqs-marshes-boy-tour-guide-tells-story-of-historic-area-one-journey-at-a-time/</loc><video:video><video:content_loc>https://cdn.jwplayer.com/videos/bof96kDx-xv27PA1r.mp4</video:content_loc><video:duration>271</video:duration><video:thumbnail_loc>https://www.thenationalnews.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.jwplayer.com%2Fv2%2Fmedia%2Fbof96kDx%2Fposter.jpg%3Fwidth%3D480%26thumbnail_version%3D1?auth=7ba611607a8df8a8c3ca440510e90525b38e0ad60d1f892461a44e9886c2c8e4&amp;smart=true&amp;width=480</video:thumbnail_loc><video:title><![CDATA[Iraq's Marshes Boy: Tour guide tells story of historic area one journey at a time]]></video:title><video:publication_date>2026-07-31T11:16:47+00:00</video:publication_date></video:video></url><url><loc>https://www.thenationalnews.com/video/ROA4Rjev/why-bts-might-be-right-to-boycott-the-grammys/</loc><video:video><video:content_loc>https://cdn.jwplayer.com/videos/ROA4Rjev-xv27PA1r.mp4</video:content_loc><video:duration>64</video:duration><video:thumbnail_loc>https://www.thenationalnews.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.jwplayer.com%2Fv2%2Fmedia%2FROA4Rjev%2Fposter.jpg%3Fwidth%3D480%26thumbnail_version%3D1?auth=979b5608d3b69db9757a48cf4b8c2ffa13a926486351ef065a2486655ddd3434&amp;smart=true&amp;width=480</video:thumbnail_loc><video:title><![CDATA[Why BTS might be right to boycott the Grammys]]></video:title><video:publication_date>2026-07-31T10:38:25+00:00</video:publication_date></video:video></url></urlset>