WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told America’s allies to “build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT” on Tuesday, formally abandoning four decades of US commitment to
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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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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia is attempting to feed 35 million people through a single port during the most food-intensive month of the
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday that Iran had agreed to “most of” the 15-point
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DHAHRAN — Aramco’s Official Selling Price for Arab Light crude to Asia is set to spike to approximately $40 per barrel above
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AL KHARJ — Ground-level photographs and satellite imagery geolocated to Prince Sultan Air Base have confirmed the destruction of a U.S. Air
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RIYADH — Mohammed bin Salman is trapped between the war he wanted and the war he got. The Saudi crown prince privately
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KUWAIT CITY — An Iranian drone struck a service building at a Kuwaiti power and water desalination plant on Sunday, killing one
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s air defense shield is degrading under sustained Iranian fire, and the 85–90 percent aggregate intercept rate cited by
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