WASHINGTON — The National Security Council convenes Tuesday in the Situation Room with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of Defense in the room, which means the
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia grounded a declared US military operation in under 36 hours. On May 4, Donald Trump announced “Project Freedom”
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TEHRAN — On May 15, Iran’s foreign minister told reporters at a BRICS meeting in New Delhi that nuclear talks with the
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi landed in Tehran on Friday for a two-day visit officially framed as peace facilitation between
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RIYADH — Donald Trump landed back in Washington on Friday after a three-day state visit to Beijing that produced no breakthrough on
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WASHINGTON — Admiral Brad Cooper told the US Senate Armed Services Committee on May 14 that American strikes had degraded 85 percent
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How the Iran War Ended Saudi Arabia’s Gulf Monopoly ABU DHABI — The 2026 Iran war has permanently fractured the Saudi-led Gulf
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RIYADH — Mohammed bin Salman killed Project Freedom nine days ago. The New York Times reported on May 16 that Washington and
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TEHRAN — Donald Trump sent Iran a new nuclear proposal on May 16, 2026, warning that Tehran must “move quickly, or something
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TEHRAN — Iran’s most visible response to President Trump’s May 16, 2026 nuclear ultimatum is a year-old television interview with a man
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TEHRAN — Nine months before the strike that killed him, Ali Shamkhani looked into an NBC News camera and said “yes” —
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ABU DHABI — When Mohammed bin Zayed called Mohammed bin Salman in the first days of March 2026 to propose a joint
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RIYADH — Donald Trump, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One as it departed Beijing on May 15, retroactively disowned the ceasefire
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DUBAI — Brent crude hit $111.04 a barrel at 8:45 AM Eastern on Thursday as markets priced in what the Trump-Xi Beijing
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Table of Contents The 90 Percent That Wasn’t Swept How Many Mines Are Actually in the Strait? One Ship, Zero Helicopters, and
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s non-oil purchasing managers’ index fell to 48.8 in March 2026, breaching the contraction threshold for the first time
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RIYADH — King Salman issued seven royal decrees on May 15, reshuffling deputy-level posts across the National Guard, Finance, Commerce, Tourism, and
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DHAHRAN — The Trump-Xi crude oil agreement is political theater with structural consequences. There is no volume commitment, no pricing mechanism, and
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HORMUZ STRAIT — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps deployed more than 340 fast-attack boats across five monitored zones of the Strait of
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia has roughly 400 PAC-3 MSE interceptors left from a pre-war inventory of 2,800 rounds, and 1.8 million pilgrims
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia is shopping a non-aggression pact between Iran and its Arab neighbours that explicitly invokes the 1975 Helsinki Accords,
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TEHRAN — On May 14, 2026, Vice President JD Vance told reporters at the White House that the United States is “making
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Saudi Arabia’s Co-Belligerent Trap Was Built With Its Own Bombs A Royal Saudi Air Force F-15SA Eagle departs on full afterburner —
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Table of Contents The Strike Near Limah The Floating Armoury Off Fujairah Why Did the IRGC Hit an Indian Ship? What Araghchi
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DUBAI — A vessel anchored 38 nautical miles northeast of Fujairah was boarded and seized by what the UK Maritime Trade Operations
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BEIJING — Xi Jinping’s endorsement that “the Strait of Hormuz must remain open” at the May 14 summit with Donald Trump is
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