Contents What Does Major Non-NATO Ally Status Actually Confer? Eighty-One Years and No Treaty The $142 Billion Headline and the $30 Billion Reality Can Pakistan Offer What Washington Won’t? The Nuclear Door
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LONDON — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan arrived in the UK on May 11 for a bilateral with Foreign Secretary
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BEIJING — On Sunday evening, Donald Trump told CBS News the April 8 ceasefire had “approximately a 1% chance of living” —
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RIYADH — For seventy-two hours between May 5 and May 8, Saudi Arabia did something it has not done since the Iraq
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NEW DELHI — Iran’s foreign minister reversed his decision to skip the BRICS Foreign Ministers Meeting in New Delhi, confirming on May
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BEIJING — President Donald Trump arrives in Beijing on May 13 for a three-day state visit, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirming
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Muscat’s Muttrah Corniche, the Omani capital that has hosted all four rounds of indirect US-Iran talks in 2026 — Oman’s role as
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MUSCAT — Three men can kill any Iran deal Donald Trump signs, and none of them work for him. The fourth round
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CHANGED: True {“content”: “ RIYADH u2014 Saudi Arabia spent $6 billion on American missiles the same week it blocked the American operation
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MUSCAT — Four days before Donald Trump lands in Riyadh to sign a civil nuclear energy deal that does not expressly forbid
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Table of Contents What the Statement Says — and What It Omits Three Countries, One Morning, Zero Casualties Why Did Faisal Call
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Table of Contents The Broadcast Before the Delivery What Did Iran Actually Demand? The $270 Billion Reparations Trap Hormuz Sovereignty and the
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CHANGED: True {“content”: “ MUSCAT u2014 The fourth round of US-Iran nuclear talks ended in Oman on May 11 with a communiquu00e9
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MUSCAT — The fourth round of US-Iran nuclear talks ended in Oman on May 11 with a communiqué so diplomatically anodyne —
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DOHA — Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani met Vice President Vance in Washington on May 8, flew to
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DOHA — Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani met Vice President Vance in Washington on May 8, flew to
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TEHRAN — On the same Sunday morning Pakistan’s foreign ministry handed Washington Iran’s formal response to the war-ending memorandum, drones were already
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TEHRAN — On the same Sunday morning Pakistan’s foreign ministry handed Washington Iran’s formal response to the war-ending memorandum, drones were already
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco reported net profit of $32.5 billion for the first quarter of 2026 on Saturday, beating analyst expectations by
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TEHRAN — Iran formally submitted its response to the US peace proposal via Pakistani mediators on May 10, 2026, while three separate
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TEHRAN — Brigadier General Seyyed Majid Mousavi, commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force, declared on Saturday evening that “the missiles and aerospace
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TEHRAN — When Mohammad Mokhber, identified across Mehr News Agency’s May 8 broadcast as an adviser to Supreme Leader Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei,
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s economy grew 2.8% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026, according to flash estimates published by the General
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MOSCOW — On May 8, Sergey Lavrov called Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan and proposed restoring Hormuz navigation to its pre-late-February
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RIYADH — The GCC spent 45 years as a security club where every member needed protection and none could provide it —
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