RIYADH — Eight days after saying the 2027 Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia would go ahead on schedule, the Asian Football Confederation reversed course on Tuesday and pushed the tournament back 11
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WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pressed President Donald Trump to strike Iran immediately after the November 3 midterm elections during
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DHAHRAN — Saudi crude exports averaged 5.52 million barrels a day between October 1 and 25, according to vessel-tracking data from Kpler,
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DHAHRAN — A tanker was struck by two projectiles approximately 72 nautical miles east of Ras Al Khafji, Saudi Arabia, late on
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DHAHRAN — Saudi air defenses intercepted a drone targeting Aramco’s Shaybah oil processing facility in the Rub’ al-Khali on October 21. Falling
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RIYADH — The Makkah Joint Defence Agreement reaches the expiry of the Trump administration’s Iran strike moratorium on November 3, 2026, without
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TEHRAN — Iran ran diplomacy and mine warfare on the same clock on November 1, 2026. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced a
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RIYADH — Saudi Civil Defense pushed emergency alerts to mobile phones across three southwestern cities on Sunday — Abha, Khamis Mushait and
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RIYADH — The Saudi-led Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen carried out what it called a “precision military operation” on Sunday, November
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DOHA — Qatar’s LNG carrier Al Mayeda was struck by unidentified objects on Friday evening while approaching the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar
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RIYADH — The Saudi-led coalition has reported seven separate attacks on or near Mecca and Medina since September 16 — intercepted cruise
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TEHRAN — Iran’s military commanders told Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on October 31 that the country’s weapons production has risen seven-fold, and
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RIYADH — The State Department ordered non-emergency US government employees and their families out of Saudi Arabia effective October 23, leaving the
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MANAMA — Syria’s foreign minister confirmed on Saturday that Damascus is negotiating to join the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement, the Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani mutual-defence
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RIYADH — Seven OPEC+ producers met online Sunday and agreed in principle to hold their December oil output targets unchanged at a
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RIYADH — Approximately 94 percent of scheduled departures at King Khalid International Airport were cancelled between October 10 and October 27, according
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DOHA — Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi confirmed on November 1 that Qatar-mediated talks had produced a proposal to reopen the Strait
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TEHRAN — Iran’s top security official Mohsen Rezaei told state media on Saturday that he had read Vice President JD Vance’s letter
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Correction, November 1, 2026: An earlier version described Kosmos 2446, shown in an illustration, as a Cosmos 2600-series reconnaissance satellite identified by
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Correction, November 1, 2026: An earlier version said at least 20 people were killed and more than 370 injured in Houthi attacks
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Correction, November 1, 2026: Mohsen Rezaei is the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, not its head; the council is chaired
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WASHINGTON — The US Embassy in Riyadh issued a fresh security alert on Friday warning that Houthi hostilities against Saudi Arabia “have
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Correction, November 1, 2026: An earlier version of this article dated Trump's White House remarks and the Rubio-Faisal meeting in Atlanta to
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ATLANTA — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan met US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday at the G20 Foreign
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Iran “wants to talk” and that the United States has time to reach
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Correction, November 1, 2026: An earlier version described ACWA Power, which signed a solar deal during President Erdogan's February visit, as a
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