SINGAPORE — US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a room of 54 defence ministers and 42 chiefs of defence staff on Friday that the United States is “more than capable” of restarting
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RIYADH — Brent crude fell to $91 a barrel on May 29 — its third consecutive daily decline, down nearly $24 from
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Table of Contents The Bottleneck Has Migrated to Washington What Does the MOU Actually Say About Hormuz — and Who Gets to
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired warning shots at four vessels attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz at approximately
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LONDON — The Strait of Hormuz is functionally closed to commercial shipping as of May 29, 2026 — not because any government
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LIMASSOL — Prince Faisal bin Farhan walked into the EU Gymnich foreign ministers’ meeting in Cyprus on May 27, ending more than
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WASHINGTON — Scott Bessent did not sanction Iran on May 28. He sanctioned the one diplomatic instrument Iran could not field alone
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KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait’s Ministry of Defence confirmed on May 28 that its air defense systems intercepted nine missiles — seven ballistic
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KUWAIT CITY — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired a ballistic missile toward Kuwait at 04:50 a.m. local time on May 28,
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia’s crude exports to its four largest Asian buyers are collapsing at a pace that pricing adjustments alone cannot
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MUSCAT — Oman’s refusal to co-sign IMO Circular Letter 5028, the five-state GCC condemnation of Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority, is not
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KUWAIT CITY — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck Camp Buehring in northern Kuwait early on May 28, targeting what it called
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RIYADH — KLM Royal Dutch Airlines extended its suspension of flights to Riyadh and Dammam through July 12, 2026, the airline confirmed
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Ali Akbar Velayati served as Iran’s Foreign Minister for sixteen consecutive years (1981–1997) before moving into the Supreme Leader’s advisory apparatus —
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RIYADH — Donald Trump told his Cabinet on May 27 that he might kill the Iran deal unless Saudi Arabia joins the
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s 106-day strategy of diplomatic silence on US-Iran negotiations ended on Eid al-Adha — not with a Saudi statement,
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LONDON — Forty nations have signed onto a UK-France coalition that will determine who governs the Strait of Hormuz after the war
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump told his Cabinet on Wednesday that Iran’s strategy of running down the clock has failed, declaring “I don’t
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NEOM has cancelled its EUR 1.4 billion ($1.6 billion) high-speed rail contract with Italian construction firm Webuild, effective May 27, eliminating the
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TEHRAN — The 2026 Iran nuclear talks have not stalled because of wording gaps or sequencing disputes. They have stalled because the
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WASHINGTON — The United States Air Force MQ-9 Reaper fleet has fallen to 135 aircraft — 54 units below the 189-aircraft operational
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RIYADH — Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader since March 9, released a 14-page written statement on the Day of Arafah declaring that
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UNITED NATIONS — Pakistan Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar addressed the United Nations Security Council on May 26, 2026,
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RIYADH — Mohammed bin Salman called Masoud Pezeshkian on Eid al-Adha to discuss expanding bilateral ties. It was the only diplomatic channel
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WASHINGTON — On the holiest day of the Islamic calendar, with 1.8 million pilgrims standing at Arafat, the Foundation for Defense of
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ABU DHABI — Anwar Gargash called the GCC’s response to the Iran war “the weakest historically” on April 27, and when nineteen
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