DHAHRAN — A Houthi missile attack on the night of 13 October targeted the Saudi Aramco headquarters complex in Dhahran. It left the executive tower’s upper floors burned and broken, and it
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RIYADH — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say two supertankers struck mines in the Strait of Hormuz within roughly 24 hours, the first of
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco has no viable fourth export route. CEO Amin Nasser confirmed in September 2026 that the company is studying
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LONDON — The same week that Britain’s maritime trade watchdog published the highest sustained rate of attacks on commercial shipping since the
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DUBAI — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps declared on October 17 that the Strait of Hormuz is closed and that “the passage
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DUBAI — A second supertanker struck a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, the navy of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary
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RIYADH — On the night of October 17, the Saudi Civil Defence pushed a cellular broadcast to every phone in Riyadh warning
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LONDON — When Gulf and British delegations meet at Guildhall on Tuesday, October 20, they will be attending the only high-level GCC
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RIYADH — Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi telephoned Saudi Arabia’s Prince Faisal bin Farhan on October 11 and offered “any assistance necessary
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TEHRAN — Iran’s war in the Strait of Hormuz shifted on October 17 when the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed a supertanker
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has, for the first time since the 2023 Beijing rapprochement, publicly accused Iran of bearing responsibility for the
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DUBAI — Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has struck Gulf energy infrastructure at least 135 times since 28 February, hitting refineries, gas fields, ports
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WASHINGTON — On the same week that a $24.3 billion F-35 sale to Saudi Arabia sat in congressional review, the United States
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RIYADH — On October 5, Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman announced the activation of “collective deterrence measures within the framework
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BANGKOK — The IMF’s managing director warned on October 14 that attacks on Saudi Arabia carry “potentially negative spillovers for everybody, everywhere,”
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TEHRAN — Iran is no longer merely blockading the Strait of Hormuz. It is administering it. On October 15, Rear Admiral Habibollah
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s coalition announced on October 15 that air defences intercepted and destroyed a cruise missile over the Madinah region.
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RIYADH — The Saudi-led coalition said on 15 October that Houthi forces had attacked King Khalid International Airport twenty times since 1
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NEW YORK — The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on 15 October to affirm Saudi Arabia’s “inherent right” to self-defense against
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RIYADH — The second EU-GCC summit, scheduled for 24 October in Riyadh, was formally postponed on 15 October with no new date
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RIYADH — The IMF’s October 2026 World Economic Outlook, released at the Fund’s annual meetings in Bangkok on 13 October, projects Saudi
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DOHA — Qatar told Saudi Arabia on October 13 that “the Kingdom’s security and the security of the countries of the GCC
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The Warning and Its Real Audience RIYADH — On 13 October, as smoke still hung over King Khalid International Airport and Riyadh
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DHAHRAN — Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree declared on 14 October that operations against Saudi territory would continue “in the coming days,”
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DHAHRAN — A ballistic missile struck the nerve centre of Saudi Aramco — the tower housing the operations centre that oversees every
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NEOM — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is preparing to drop five of the fifteen stadiums it proposed for the 2034 FIFA
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