WASHINGTON — A classified US intelligence assessment obtained by CNN reveals that roughly half of Iran’s ballistic missile launchers remain intact after five weeks of American and Israeli airstrikes, a finding that
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TEHRAN — An IRGC “military council” of senior officers has seized de facto control of Iran’s government, cutting President Masoud Pezeshkian off
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ABU DHABI — Iran is not trying to overwhelm Saudi Arabia, the UAE, or Kuwait individually — it is trying to drain
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WASHINGTON — The war in Iran is costing the United States $1.5 billion a day. On Sunday, the White House said President
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RIYADH — As of April 2, 2026, the conflict involving the United States, Israel, and the Islamic Republic of Iran has entered
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Table of Contents Thirty-Five Flags, No Warships What Does Starmer Actually Want from April 3? Trump Responds: “Go Get Your Own Oil”
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s thirty-year investment in GCC cohesion — the scaffolding behind the Islamabad Quadrilateral, the F-35 deal, and the kingdom’s
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ISLAMABAD — Iran’s foreign minister went on Al Jazeera on April 1 and told the world his country is ready to fight
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RIYADH — Gulf Cooperation Council stocks of PAC-3 MSE interceptors — the only missile capable of reliably engaging Iranian ballistic threats —
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DOHA — An Iranian cruise missile struck the fuel oil tanker Aqua 1, chartered to QatarEnergy, approximately 17 nautical miles north of
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VIENNA — The world’s strategic petroleum reserves — the last emergency buffer between a managed oil crisis and an unmanaged one —
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump told Europe this morning to “build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT.”
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WASHINGTON — The most hawkish think tank in Washington is telling Trump not to invade Kharg Island. That alone should make everyone
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JUBAIL — Sadara Chemical Company, the $20 billion joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Dow Inc. that operates the world’s largest integrated
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RIYADH — Forty-eight hours after Saudi Arabia committed roughly $1 trillion in investments and accepted a $142 billion arms package at the
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WASHINGTON — The 82nd Airborne Division is loading onto C-17s with orders to seize Iran’s oil infrastructure by force. Thirteen thousand paratroopers
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JEDDAH — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hosted Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Jordan’s King Abdullah II
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RIYADH — Iran is not trying to beat Saudi Arabia’s air defenses. It is trying to empty them. On Monday morning, seven
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MIAMI — On the evening of March 27, 2026, Donald Trump took the stage at the Faena Hotel in Miami Beach to
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DUBAI — An Iranian drone struck the Kuwaiti supertanker Al Salmi just after midnight on Tuesday inside Dubai’s anchorage zone, setting fire
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RIYADH — Thirty-one days without reliable air travel has turned Saudi Arabia from the Middle East’s most connected economy into something approaching
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia spent a single weekend calling for peace, lobbying for war, and denying it had done either. On March
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RIYADH — Donald Trump told aides on Sunday he is willing to end the war against Iran without reopening the Strait of
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ISLAMABAD — Iran agreed on March 28 to grant 20 Pakistani-flagged vessels safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz at a rate
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WASHINGTON — The United States has approved the sale of 48 F-35A Lightning II fighters to Saudi Arabia, the first time Washington
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DHAHRAN — Brent crude closed March 30 at $115.35 per barrel, capping the largest monthly price surge in the benchmark’s four-decade history
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