RIYADH — The Iran war entered its twelfth day on Wednesday in a convergence of escalation and diplomacy that left the outcome as uncertain as at any point since the conflict began.
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s multibillion-dollar missile defense network has intercepted hundreds of Iranian ballistic missiles and drones since the war began on
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened Iran with “death, fire, and fury” if Tehran continues to block oil shipments through
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MUSCAT — Eleven days into the most destructive military confrontation the Persian Gulf has witnessed in a generation, the only telephone line
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WASHINGTON — Senator Lindsey Graham threatened on Monday to withdraw support for a long-sought United States-Saudi Arabia mutual defense agreement unless the
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RIYADH — Iran’s simultaneous missile and drone attacks on all six Gulf Cooperation Council states in late February 2026 accomplished something that
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KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait closed its airspace, slashed oil production, and declared force majeure on petroleum exports after Iranian drone strikes damaged
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RIYADH — The war between the United States, Israel, and Iran has killed a Supreme Leader, shattered oil markets, and sent drones
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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Tuesday that the United States would carry out its most intense day of strikes
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia poured more than $100 billion into the most ambitious aviation transformation in modern history. The Kingdom ordered 182
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RIYADH — Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi declared on March 8 that Tehran will not accept a ceasefire or negotiate with the
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RIYADH — The Iran war has cost Saudi Arabia far more than the official narrative suggests, and the gap between the oil
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AL-KHARJ — Army Sergeant Benjamin Pennington, 26, of Glendale, Kentucky, died on March 8 from wounds sustained during an Iranian ballistic missile
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter adjusted profit of $25.1 billion and announced a $3 billion share buyback programme, delivering
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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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