Is this news or editorial. The URL says "news", but it's full of "reports say" and "sources say," without saying who those sources are saying to. Are the source

Is this news or editorial. The URL says "news", but it's full of "reports say" and "sources say," without saying who those sources are saying to. Are the sources saying to the article's author, or to someone else in some other article at some other outlet, or what? From the byline, who is "Defense and Foreign Affairs," and who is "oil.com?"