WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened Iran with “death, fire, and fury” if Tehran continues to block oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, escalating a war of words over
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RIYADH — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps pledged on Monday to launch only missiles carrying warheads weighing at least one ton, a
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RIYADH — Ten days of Iranian missiles, drone swarms, and retaliatory airstrikes have killed dozens and pushed oil past $110 a barrel.
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CAIRO — Arab foreign ministers convened an emergency session of the Arab League Council on March 8 and issued a 16-point statement
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RIYADH — Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, has spent the past eleven days conducting what may be
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RIYADH — The Iran war entered its eleventh day on Tuesday with President Donald Trump declaring the conflict “very complete” even as
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared the war against Iran “very complete” in a CBS News interview broadcast Sunday, telling the network
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RIYADH — Ten days into the most sustained aerial bombardment the Arabian Peninsula has faced in modern history, Saudi Arabia confronts a
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RIYADH — Ten days into the most dangerous military confrontation the Kingdom has faced since its founding, the missiles and drones striking
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RIYADH — Global equity markets shed more than $6 trillion in value during the first full trading week of the Iran war,
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TEHRAN — Iran’s new supreme leader has not been seen in public since the war began. Mojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son of
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RIYADH — China’s special envoy on Middle East affairs, Zhai Jun, met Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in
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TOKYO — In the fluorescent-lit trading rooms of Idemitsu Kosan and ENEOS Holdings, the numbers on the screens have stopped making sense.
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RIYADH — G7 energy ministers will hold an emergency virtual meeting on Tuesday to discuss a coordinated release of up to 400
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RIYADH — The strikes that destroyed Iran’s nuclear enrichment program were supposed to make the Middle East safer. Ten months after Operation
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RIYADH — More than 27,000 commercial flights have been cancelled across seven major Gulf airports since Iran began striking civilian infrastructure and
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RIYADH — Iran’s foreign minister declared on March 8 that Tehran will not seek a ceasefire, telling NBC News that his country
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RIYADH — Ukraine will send its first groups of military counter-drone experts to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states next week, President
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has spent an estimated $700 billion on defence over the past decade, purchasing the most advanced fighter jets,
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TEL AVIV — Israel’s military has positioned approximately 40,000 ground troops along the Lebanese border, the largest northern buildup since the 2006
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia has begun cutting oil production for the first time since the Iran war erupted on 28 February, Bloomberg
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RIYADH — The Iran war has generated a revenue windfall for Saudi Arabia that no budget planner anticipated and no politician will
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TEHRAN — Israeli warplanes struck Iran’s oil infrastructure for the first time since the war began on February 28, hitting 30 fuel
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RIYADH — Mohammed bin Salman faces the most consequential ten days of his political life. The Crown Prince and Prime Minister who
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RIYADH — Pakistan’s top military commander, Field Marshal Asim Munir, flew to Riyadh on Friday to meet Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid
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RIYADH — Monday, March 9, opened with Brent crude still trading above $130 per barrel, the diplomatic fallout from Israel’s unilateral strike
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