AL-KHARJ — Army Sergeant Benjamin Pennington, 26, of Glendale, Kentucky, died on March 8 from wounds sustained during an Iranian ballistic missile strike on Prince Sultan Air Base one week earlier, making
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RIYADH — China’s special envoy on Middle East affairs, Zhai Jun, met Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in
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TOKYO — In the fluorescent-lit trading rooms of Idemitsu Kosan and ENEOS Holdings, the numbers on the screens have stopped making sense.
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RIYADH — G7 energy ministers will hold an emergency virtual meeting on Tuesday to discuss a coordinated release of up to 400
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RIYADH — The strikes that destroyed Iran’s nuclear enrichment program were supposed to make the Middle East safer. Ten months after Operation
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RIYADH — More than 27,000 commercial flights have been cancelled across seven major Gulf airports since Iran began striking civilian infrastructure and
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RIYADH — Iran’s foreign minister declared on March 8 that Tehran will not seek a ceasefire, telling NBC News that his country
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RIYADH — Ukraine will send its first groups of military counter-drone experts to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states next week, President
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has spent an estimated $700 billion on defence over the past decade, purchasing the most advanced fighter jets,
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TEL AVIV — Israel’s military has positioned approximately 40,000 ground troops along the Lebanese border, the largest northern buildup since the 2006
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia has begun cutting oil production for the first time since the Iran war erupted on 28 February, Bloomberg
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RIYADH — The Iran war has generated a revenue windfall for Saudi Arabia that no budget planner anticipated and no politician will
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TEHRAN — Israeli warplanes struck Iran’s oil infrastructure for the first time since the war began on February 28, hitting 30 fuel
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RIYADH — Mohammed bin Salman faces the most consequential ten days of his political life. The Crown Prince and Prime Minister who
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RIYADH — Pakistan’s top military commander, Field Marshal Asim Munir, flew to Riyadh on Friday to meet Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid
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RIYADH — Monday, March 9, opened with Brent crude still trading above $130 per barrel, the diplomatic fallout from Israel’s unilateral strike
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RIYADH — Mojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old cleric who spent decades as the most powerful man in Iran that most Iranians never saw,
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WASHINGTON — When Israeli warplanes struck Kharg Island in the early hours of March 8, turning Iran’s largest oil export terminal into
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RIYADH — A military projectile struck a residential compound in Saudi Arabia’s Al-Kharj governorate on Sunday, killing two Bangladeshi nationals and wounding
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RIYADH — Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian apologized to Gulf Arab states on March 8 for the wave of missile and drone attacks
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RIYADH — The United States ordered all non-emergency government employees and their families to leave Saudi Arabia on Saturday, marking the first
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BRUSSELS — Ten days into the most significant Middle Eastern conflict since 2003, Europe has managed to issue statements, dispatch warships, and
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Assembly of Experts on Saturday named Mojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son of assassinated Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, as the
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RIYADH — Ukraine’s low-cost interceptor drones, battle-tested against more than a thousand Iranian-made Shahed kamikaze drones over Ukrainian skies, have emerged as
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The Iran war moved into a more dangerous phase on Sunday, March 8, as the conflict spread beyond military bases, oil installations
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Wars are often narrated as contests over territory, ideology or military prestige. For Saudi Arabia, the Iran war is already something else
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