Contents What Does Qatar Mean by “Frozen Conflict”? The Decisiveness Summit That Decided Nothing Why Can Qatar Survive a Frozen Hormuz and

JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia blocked Pakistan’s $1.5 billion arms deal with Sudan’s military government on April 20, withdrawing the financing that made

JEDDAH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan took a phone call from UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday, April 29

TEHRAN — Iran does not have a functioning supreme leader. It has three men — Hossein Taeb, Mohsen Rezaei, and Mohammad Bagher

Table of Contents The Two-Day Gap That Could Define the War’s Legality What Does “State of Collapse” Actually Mean? Six Votes, One

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TEHRAN — When Vladimir Putin told Araghchi on April 27 that he had “received a message from the Supreme Leader of Iran,”

WASHINGTON — The War Powers Resolution’s 60-day clock runs out on May 1, three days from now, and the Trump administration has

Table of Contents The Vote That Closed the Door Why Did Russia and China Veto a Resolution They Had Already Weakened? Kostyukov

DUBAI — A 142-meter superyacht belonging to Russia’s richest man sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on April 25 without a single

TEHRAN — Iran’s regular army told the world on Tuesday that the war is still on. Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia, spokesperson for

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Guterres Warns of Global Food Emergency as Saudi Arabia Publicly Accuses Iran at UNSC Hormuz Debate Table of Contents Eighty Nations, One

MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin sat across from Abbas Araghchi in St. Petersburg on April 27 and listened to the Iranian foreign minister

JEDDAH — Leaders of all six Gulf Cooperation Council states convened an extraordinary consultative summit in Jeddah on Monday, April 28, 2026