ISLAMABAD — Iran agreed on March 28 to grant 20 Pakistani-flagged vessels safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz at a rate of two per day, Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar confirmed,
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RIYADH — Iran’s decision to widen its war to all six Gulf Cooperation Council members simultaneously accomplished what three decades of Saudi-led
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ABU DHABI — Iran’s missile and drone strikes on aluminium smelters in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain on 29 March mark a deliberate
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JEDDAH — Ukraine and Saudi Arabia signed a defense cooperation memorandum of understanding on March 27, marking Kyiv’s first military agreement with
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The Shield Has a Timer and the Coalition Defending Saudi Arabia Knows It RIYADH — The multinational air defense coalition protecting Saudi
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DOHA — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Sunday declared all American and Israeli university campuses across the Gulf region “legitimate targets,”
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline has reached its theoretical maximum of 7 million barrels per day, but the oil has nowhere
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WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance declared on March 28 that the United States will continue fighting in Iran “a little while
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NEOM — Saudi Arabia has killed NEOM. Not with an announcement but with an autopsy performed in public, one contract termination at
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YANBU — Saudi Aramco’s East-West Pipeline reached its designed maximum throughput of 7 million barrels per day on Friday, Bloomberg reported, the
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RIYADH — The military campaign against Iran has a finite timeline, but the reconstruction contest that follows will determine the Middle East’s
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NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on March 28, 2026 — the second wartime
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MUSCAT — Oman is the last neutral state in the Persian Gulf, and the most consequential. One month into a war that
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan will host the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt for two days of talks beginning March 30,
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MIAMI — Donald Trump stood on a stage built with Saudi money, looked out at a room full of sovereign wealth fund
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DHAHRAN — Brent crude surged 4.22 percent on Friday to settle at $112.57 per barrel, its highest close since July 2022, while
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RIYADH — One month after the first American and Israeli bombs struck Iran on February 28, Saudi Arabia’s war ledger defies simple
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PARIS — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan held five bilateral meetings in 48 hours at the G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting
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RIYADH — Mohammed bin Salman has absorbed approximately 600 Iranian drone and missile strikes since February 28, watched four Aramco supergiant oil
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MIAMI — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund unveiled plans for a new five-year strategy at the FII PRIORITY Miami summit on March
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RIYADH — The Gulf Cooperation Council has spent more than $130 billion annually on defense across its six member states, yet four
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JEDDAH — Yemen’s Houthi forces launched a ballistic missile barrage against Israel on March 28, marking the group’s first direct military intervention
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TEHRAN — Iran’s war is not being directed by its Supreme Leader. Four weeks after the Assembly of Experts elected Mojtaba Khamenei
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DUBAI — Iran has begun charging commercial vessels up to $2 million per voyage to transit the Strait of Hormuz, Bloomberg reported
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PARIS — G7 foreign ministers meeting at the Abbaye des Vaux-de-Cernay outside Paris on March 27 issued a joint statement condemning Iran’s
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