RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s most important month of international events is breaking apart under Houthi missile strikes, and the calendar items still standing face a problem no organiser can solve: the airlines
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TEHRAN — Iran’s war in the Strait of Hormuz shifted on October 17 when the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed a supertanker
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has, for the first time since the 2023 Beijing rapprochement, publicly accused Iran of bearing responsibility for the
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DUBAI — Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has struck Gulf energy infrastructure at least 135 times since 28 February, hitting refineries, gas fields, ports
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WASHINGTON — On the same week that a $24.3 billion F-35 sale to Saudi Arabia sat in congressional review, the United States
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RIYADH — On October 5, Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman announced the activation of “collective deterrence measures within the framework
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BANGKOK — The IMF’s managing director warned on October 14 that attacks on Saudi Arabia carry “potentially negative spillovers for everybody, everywhere,”
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TEHRAN — Iran is no longer merely blockading the Strait of Hormuz. It is administering it. On October 15, Rear Admiral Habibollah
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s coalition announced on October 15 that air defences intercepted and destroyed a cruise missile over the Madinah region.
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RIYADH — The Saudi-led coalition said on 15 October that Houthi forces had attacked King Khalid International Airport twenty times since 1
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NEW YORK — The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on 15 October to affirm Saudi Arabia’s “inherent right” to self-defense against
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RIYADH — The second EU-GCC summit, scheduled for 24 October in Riyadh, was formally postponed on 15 October with no new date
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RIYADH — The IMF’s October 2026 World Economic Outlook, released at the Fund’s annual meetings in Bangkok on 13 October, projects Saudi
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DOHA — Qatar told Saudi Arabia on October 13 that “the Kingdom’s security and the security of the countries of the GCC
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The Warning and Its Real Audience RIYADH — On 13 October, as smoke still hung over King Khalid International Airport and Riyadh
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DHAHRAN — Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree declared on 14 October that operations against Saudi territory would continue “in the coming days,”
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DHAHRAN — A ballistic missile struck the nerve centre of Saudi Aramco — the tower housing the operations centre that oversees every
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NEOM — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is preparing to drop five of the fifteen stadiums it proposed for the 2034 FIFA
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RIYADH — Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi arrived in the Saudi capital on 14 October and pledged that Iraqi territory would not
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RIYADH — On September 20, at a US military facility within range of Yemen, American ground crews were loading ordnance onto strike
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RIYADH — Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of the Houthi political bureau, told AFP on October 13 that if the United States joins
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RIYADH — The Saudi-led coalition struck the Yemen Petroleum Company’s Al-Sabaha Central Station on the western outskirts of Sanaa on October 13,
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DHAHRAN — On the night of October 13, the Houthis did not strike a pipeline, a refinery, or a processing plant. They
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{“content”: “ RIYADH u2014 The International Monetary Fund’s October 2026 World Economic Outlook projects Saudi Arabia’s GDP will contract 3.3 percent in
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan on the night of October 11–12 and
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ANKARA — Turkey’s foreign minister ruled out offensive military operations under the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement on 8 October, five days before
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