YANBU — A Greek-operated Patriot air defense battery stationed at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea port of Yanbu intercepted two Iranian ballistic missiles early on Thursday, marking the first confirmed combat engagement by
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RIYADH — Israel killed Iran’s intelligence minister Esmaeil Khatib in an overnight airstrike on Tehran early Wednesday, making him the third senior
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RIYADH — Ali Larijani spent decades navigating the corridors of Iranian power as philosopher, nuclear negotiator, and parliament speaker. On March 17,
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RIYADH — Human Rights Watch on Monday published its most detailed investigation into civilian casualties from Iranian drone and missile attacks across
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RIYADH — The destruction of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure in the opening hours of Operation Epic Fury eliminated the Middle East’s most advanced
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia convened an emergency ministerial meeting of foreign ministers from Arab and Islamic nations in Riyadh on Wednesday evening,
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RIYADH — Ukraine’s four-year war against Russian-operated Iranian Shahed drones has produced exactly what the Gulf states now need most: interceptor drones
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BRUSSELS — European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday rejected expanding the bloc’s naval mission to the Strait of Hormuz,
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DHAHRAN — Iran launched nearly one hundred drones at Saudi Arabia on Monday, the largest single-day barrage since the war began eighteen
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RIYADH — Goldman Sachs has warned that Gulf Arab economies face their sharpest downturn in a generation as the Iran war grinds
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CAIRO — Egypt commands the largest military in the Arab world — 438,500 active troops, 218 F-16 fighters, 54 Dassault Rafale jets,
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DUBAI — Gulf Arab states that spent years rebuilding diplomatic ties with Tehran are now pressing the United States to ensure Iran
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MOSCOW — Russia did not fire a single missile at Iran. It did not deploy a warship to the Persian Gulf. It
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia is deploying reinforced security across its holiest cities and tightening access to major mosques as the Kingdom prepares
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RIYADH — Israel claims to have killed Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and the man widely regarded
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RIYADH — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a direct threat on March 16 ordering the evacuation of all American-linked industrial facilities
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ANKARA — Turkey has absorbed three Iranian ballistic missiles in eighteen days of war, watched NATO shoot them down over its own
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BAGHDAD — Rockets and at least five explosives-laden drones struck the United States Embassy compound and surrounding areas in Baghdad’s fortified Green
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul All Share Index lost 12 percent of its value in the first week of the Iran war,
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TEHRAN — Iran issued a new statement attributed to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Monday, but the 56-year-old cleric has not appeared
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ABU DHABI — An Iranian drone struck the Shah gas field in Abu Dhabi on Monday, setting fire to one of the
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RIYADH — The missiles and drones that have struck Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Jordan since February 28
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RIYADH — Seventeen days into Iran’s retaliatory drone and missile campaign against Gulf states, the conflict’s civilian toll has fallen disproportionately on
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RIYADH — Seventeen days into the Iran war, the global conversation remains fixated on oil prices, missile trajectories, and the geopolitics of
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WASHINGTON — The United States is allowing Iranian oil tankers to transit the Strait of Hormuz even as the two countries remain
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RIYADH — On April 17, 2025, Prince Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud walked into a Tehran reception hall and delivered
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