ISLAMABAD — Sixteen Pakistani JF-17 fighter jets sit at King Abdulaziz Air Base in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province, parked there since April under a bilateral defence agreement whose full text has never
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DHAHRAN — Saudi air defenses intercepted the drone. The interception worked exactly as designed. Two foreign workers died anyway, killed by falling
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ADEN — Houthi forces have occupied Mayyun Island — the 13-square-kilometre volcanic outcrop that divides the Bab el-Mandeb Strait into two shipping
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia reopened King Khalid International Airport to limited commercial traffic on Wednesday, the same morning the Saudi-led coalition announced
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DOHA — On October 19, Qatar’s Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani gave a wide-ranging address at the Global
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RIYADH — The Saudi-led coalition intercepted four or five drones over Saudi Arabia on 21 October, with at least one heading for
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WASHINGTON — The US 5th Fleet headquarters sits in Bahrain, but its four Avenger-class minesweepers left in January 2026, weeks before American
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DUBAI — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has established a mine blockade of the Strait of Hormuz that has cut daily tanker
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TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on 21 October that the Strait of Hormuz “will remain closed” until Washington accepts
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RIYADH — The Indian Embassy in Riyadh issued a fresh safety advisory on 20 October 2026 telling approximately 2.65 million Indian nationals
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ANKARA — Turkey submitted the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement to parliament on 20 October 2026 — seventy-four days after President Recep Tayyip
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LONDON — Britain committed RAF Typhoon fighter jets to defend Saudi cities against Houthi drone and missile attacks on 20 October, a
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RIYADH — The Saudi-led coalition’s October 19 warning against using fishing boats to smuggle weapons into Yemen is not a security bulletin.
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RIYADH — Riyadh Season, the General Entertainment Authority’s flagship annual programme, is set to open its seventh edition on Wednesday 21 October
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RIYADH — Saudi Civil Defense told residents of Riyadh and Al-Kharj on Saturday evening that the danger had passed, urging them to
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DHAHRAN — On October 20, Saudi Arabia said Dammam’s King Fahd International Airport had been targeted in a fresh attack — the
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RIYADH — Brigadier-General Hossein Mohebbi, the IRGC’s spokesman, stood in Tehran’s Sacred Defence Museum on 19 October and told Iran’s state television
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CAIRO — Egypt’s parliament adjourned without voting on a military deployment to defend Saudi Arabia. The UAE reportedly agreed to resume funding
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DHAHRAN — Yahya Saree, the Houthi military spokesman, announced early on Monday that Yemeni Armed Forces had conducted six military operations against
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia postponed the Future Investment Initiative conference, its flagship annual gathering of global finance and business leaders, to 2027
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DHAHRAN — A Houthi missile attack on the night of 13 October targeted the Saudi Aramco headquarters complex in Dhahran. It left
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DUBAI — Captain Tim Hawkins, CENTCOM’s spokesman, told Fox News on 18 October that “about 97% of the ships that have sought
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LONDON — Saudi Arabia is a belligerent in a war whose maritime consequences have trapped approximately 6,000 seafarers in and around the
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NAJRAN — A hostile projectile struck a residential neighbourhood in Najran on 18 October 2026, wounding six Saudi civilians, damaging three homes
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MANILA — The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed on 19 October that seven Filipino workers had been wounded in Saudi Arabia’s
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CAIRO — Egypt’s parliament is debating whether to authorize military support for Saudi Arabia, but the negotiation that matters is not happening
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