The conflict in the Persian Gulf entered its sixteenth day on Sunday with a series of significant military escalations and a hardening of diplomatic positions. As the “combined force” of the United
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RIYADH — Iranian missiles have damaged five U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia,
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RIYADH — The American military bases that were supposed to shield Saudi Arabia from Iranian aggression have become the primary reason Iran
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DUBAI — Iran approved the passage of Turkish, Indian, and Saudi-chartered vessels through the Strait of Hormuz on March 13, marking the
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RIYADH — The Gulf Cooperation Council was designed for exactly this moment — a direct military threat from Iran against all six
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WASHINGTON — The United States State Department announced on Friday a $10 million reward for information on Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba
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RIYADH — Fourteen days of Iranian missiles and drones accomplished what decades of Saudi diplomatic manoeuvring could not: they shattered the United
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has ordered the USS Tripoli, an 855-foot amphibious assault ship carrying F-35B Lightning II stealth fighters, along with
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RIYADH — Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, the Saudi energy minister who once warned oil speculators they would be “ouching like hell,” now
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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei was “wounded and likely disfigured” in the
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RIYADH — On the fourteenth day of the Iran war, March 14, 2026, Saudi Arabia’s air defense batteries had intercepted 25 ballistic
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DUBAI — The International Maritime Organization warned on Friday that more than 3,000 commercial vessels and 20,000 seafarers remain stranded across the
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DHAHRAN — President Donald Trump announced on March 13 that the United States had “totally obliterated every MILITARY target” on Iran’s Kharg
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JEDDAH — Formula 1 is set to cancel both the Bahrain Grand Prix and the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in April 2026,
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BEIJING — China imports roughly 40 percent of its crude oil and 30 percent of its liquefied natural gas through the Strait
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday night temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian oil shipments in an effort to cool surging energy
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia is building fifteen stadiums, training one hundred and thirty-four facilities, and preparing to welcome more than a million
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RIYADH — An explosion struck Tehran’s Ferdowsi Square on Friday during the annual Al-Quds Day rally, killing at least one person and
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SANAA — Thirteen days into the most destructive conflict the Middle East has seen since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the region’s
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WASHINGTON — The United States admitted on Wednesday that its Navy cannot yet escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, ten
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AMMAN — Jordan declares itself neutral. Its F-16s are shooting down Iranian drones. Its largest air base has been hit by 119
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MUSCAT — Two foreign workers were killed and several others injured on Friday when Iranian drones crashed into an industrial area in
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NEW DELHI — India is staring down its worst energy crisis since the 1973 oil embargo, and unlike that distant shock, this
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia intercepted 56 drones and two ballistic missiles on Friday as Iran launched its largest single-day aerial assault against
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JEDDAH — When Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif landed in Saudi Arabia on March 12 for an emergency meeting with Crown Prince
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ERBIL — A French soldier was killed and six others wounded on Thursday when an Iranian-made Shahed drone struck a coalition base
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