WASHINGTON — Donald Trump told Europe this morning to “build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT.” He told the United Kingdom it would “have to start
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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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WASHINGTON — The foundational bargain that has governed US-Gulf relations since 1945 — America guarantees security, the Gulf guarantees oil — has
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Table of Contents What Trump Told the Financial Times Brent Surges Past $116 on Seizure Fears Why Is the Saudi Windfall Also
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RIYADH — Iran’s decision to widen its war to all six Gulf Cooperation Council members simultaneously accomplished what three decades of Saudi-led
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In this article: What Does the Pentagon’s Ground War Plan Mean for Saudi Arabia? Where Is the Legal Line Between Hosting Defenders
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ABU DHABI — Iran’s missile and drone strikes on aluminium smelters in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain on 29 March mark a deliberate
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JEDDAH — Ukraine and Saudi Arabia signed a defense cooperation memorandum of understanding on March 27, marking Kyiv’s first military agreement with
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The Shield Has a Timer and the Coalition Defending Saudi Arabia Knows It RIYADH — The multinational air defense coalition protecting Saudi
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DOHA — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Sunday declared all American and Israeli university campuses across the Gulf region “legitimate targets,”
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline has reached its theoretical maximum of 7 million barrels per day, but the oil has nowhere
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WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance declared on March 28 that the United States will continue fighting in Iran “a little while
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NEOM — Saudi Arabia has killed NEOM. Not with an announcement but with an autopsy performed in public, one contract termination at
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YANBU — Saudi Aramco’s East-West Pipeline reached its designed maximum throughput of 7 million barrels per day on Friday, Bloomberg reported, the
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RIYADH — The military campaign against Iran has a finite timeline, but the reconstruction contest that follows will determine the Middle East’s
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NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on March 28, 2026 — the second wartime
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MUSCAT — Oman is the last neutral state in the Persian Gulf, and the most consequential. One month into a war that
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