TEHRAN — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed on November 5 that two oil tankers and a tugboat caught fire after striking naval mines on what it called an “unauthorized route” in
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RIYADH — Eight days after saying the 2027 Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia would go ahead on schedule, the Asian Football Confederation
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DOHA — President Donald Trump’s self-imposed moratorium on striking Iran expired on Tuesday, November 3, with no US response to Tehran’s 2-day
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco on Tuesday reported a third-quarter net profit of $36.25 billion, a 34 percent increase from a year earlier,
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TEHRAN — Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned on Tuesday that Washington would “face a new battlefield” if it carried out
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired surface-to-air missiles at a US military aircraft over the Strait of Hormuz on Monday,
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WASHINGTON — The United States has neither accepted nor rejected Iran’s revised two-day plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, leaving the
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DUBAI — Iran and the United States both signalled on November 2 that a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz could
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TEHRAN — Up to six explosions struck Iran’s Qeshm Island on Monday evening — home to the IRGC’s principal naval and drone
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DHAHRAN — Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree claimed on Monday that the group targeted King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia’s
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told supporters at an Iowa rally on Sunday that the United States may have to “give them
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MANAMA — Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of the US 5th Fleet, said in a video published by CENTCOM on the evening of
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BEIJING — Saudi national security advisor Dr. Musaed bin Mohammed Al-Aiban met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on Monday and
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WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pressed President Donald Trump to strike Iran immediately after the November 3 midterm elections during
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DHAHRAN — Saudi crude exports averaged 5.52 million barrels a day between October 1 and 25, according to vessel-tracking data from Kpler,
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DHAHRAN — A tanker was struck by two projectiles approximately 72 nautical miles east of Ras Al Khafji, Saudi Arabia, late on
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DHAHRAN — Saudi air defenses intercepted a drone targeting Aramco’s Shaybah oil processing facility in the Rub’ al-Khali on October 21. Falling
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RIYADH — The Makkah Joint Defence Agreement reaches the expiry of the Trump administration’s Iran strike moratorium on November 3, 2026, without
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TEHRAN — Iran ran diplomacy and mine warfare on the same clock on November 1, 2026. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced a
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RIYADH — Saudi Civil Defense pushed emergency alerts to mobile phones across three southwestern cities on Sunday — Abha, Khamis Mushait and
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RIYADH — The Saudi-led Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen carried out what it called a “precision military operation” on Sunday, November
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DOHA — Qatar’s LNG carrier Al Mayeda was struck by unidentified objects on Friday evening while approaching the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar
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RIYADH — The Saudi-led coalition has reported seven separate attacks on or near Mecca and Medina since September 16 — intercepted cruise
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TEHRAN — Iran’s military commanders told Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on October 31 that the country’s weapons production has risen seven-fold, and
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RIYADH — The State Department ordered non-emergency US government employees and their families out of Saudi Arabia effective October 23, leaving the
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MANAMA — Syria’s foreign minister confirmed on Saturday that Damascus is negotiating to join the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement, the Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani mutual-defence
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