DHAHRAN — OPEC+ voted on April 5 to raise its May production quota by 206,000 barrels per day — a figure that
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JEDDAH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan held phone calls on April 27 with the foreign ministers of Iran, Bahrain,
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TEHRAN — Saeed Jalili, the hardline former nuclear negotiator whose six-year tenure at the head of Iran’s P5+1 delegation produced three UN
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JEDDAH — Thirty-six thousand Bangladeshi pilgrims have reached Saudi Arabia. Iraqi families are crossing at Jadidat Arar. Indonesia’s first Hajj flights departed
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The golden dome of the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, where the “Martyrs of the Epic Struggle” mural depicting Mojtaba Khamenei alongside
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Table of Contents The Cabinet’s Register Shift What Did Saudi Arabia Signal in a Single Week? Thirty Thousand Pilgrims as Statecraft The
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JEDDAH — The first group of Iranian Hajj pilgrims landed at Medina’s Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz International Airport on April 25, 2026,
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WASHINGTON — On April 27, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio described Iran’s version of an open Strait of Hormuz in nineteen
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DHAHRAN — Goldman Sachs raised its fourth-quarter 2026 Brent crude forecast to $90 per barrel on Sunday, up from $83 two weeks
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NEW YORK — The 11th Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons opens today at United Nations headquarters
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump convened his senior national security principals in the White House Situation Room on Sunday to deliberate on
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia has lost its status as the world’s swing producer of crude oil — the single most consequential asset
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ANTALYA — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan from the air on April 27, briefing
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ST. PETERSBURG — Abbas Araghchi did not fly to Russia to brief Vladimir Putin. He flew to St. Petersburg on April 27
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JEDDAH — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hosted Sudan’s General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in Jeddah on April 21, three weeks after
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The Six-Country Sky Over Saudi Arabia: Ukraine’s Sky Map Lands at PSAB Six Weeks After Trump Said No
JEDDAH — Six weeks before a Ukrainian military team arrived at a Saudi air base to train American soldiers on how to
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LONDON — Donald Trump and Keir Starmer spoke by phone on April 26 and agreed on what Downing Street called “the urgent
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Iran’s Hormuz-First Proposal Is Not a Concession. It Is a Sovereignty Claim Dressed as a Peace Plan.
JEDDAH — Iran transmitted a three-phase written proposal to the United States via Pakistan on April 25–27, sequencing a full ceasefire first,
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon told the House Armed Services Committee on April 22 that clearing Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz
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RIYADH — The Public Investment Fund sold 70 percent of Al-Hilal Club Company to Kingdom Holding in April for SAR 840 million
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BANDAR ABBAS — An explosion ripped through the Sina Port container yard at Shahid Rajaei port at 12:20 local time on April
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MUSCAT — Iran’s foreign minister is not negotiating a ceasefire. He is building the institutional architecture that would make Iran a permanent
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LONDON — IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez briefed the United Nations Security Council on Sunday on what he called an unprecedented maritime humanitarian
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NICOSIA — The GCC Secretary-General flew to Cyprus last week and, over an informal working lunch with Ursula von der Leyen and
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MOKHA, Yemen — Two Houthi anti-ship ballistic missiles struck the Panama-flagged crude tanker MV Andromeda Star approximately 15 nautical miles southwest of
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia is absorbing 83% of Iran’s missile and drone strikes, bleeding 3.15 million barrels per day in lost oil
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