DHAHRAN — Saudi air defenses intercepted the drone. The interception worked exactly as designed. Two foreign workers died anyway, killed by falling debris from the shootdown that struck a contractor’s vehicle parked
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RIYADH — Riyadh Season, the General Entertainment Authority’s flagship annual programme, is set to open its seventh edition on Wednesday 21 October
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RIYADH — Saudi Civil Defense told residents of Riyadh and Al-Kharj on Saturday evening that the danger had passed, urging them to
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DHAHRAN — On October 20, Saudi Arabia said Dammam’s King Fahd International Airport had been targeted in a fresh attack — the
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RIYADH — Brigadier-General Hossein Mohebbi, the IRGC’s spokesman, stood in Tehran’s Sacred Defence Museum on 19 October and told Iran’s state television
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CAIRO — Egypt’s parliament adjourned without voting on a military deployment to defend Saudi Arabia. The UAE reportedly agreed to resume funding
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DHAHRAN — Yahya Saree, the Houthi military spokesman, announced early on Monday that Yemeni Armed Forces had conducted six military operations against
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia postponed the Future Investment Initiative conference, its flagship annual gathering of global finance and business leaders, to 2027
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DHAHRAN — A Houthi missile attack on the night of 13 October targeted the Saudi Aramco headquarters complex in Dhahran. It left
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DUBAI — Captain Tim Hawkins, CENTCOM’s spokesman, told Fox News on 18 October that “about 97% of the ships that have sought
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LONDON — Saudi Arabia is a belligerent in a war whose maritime consequences have trapped approximately 6,000 seafarers in and around the
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NAJRAN — A hostile projectile struck a residential neighbourhood in Najran on 18 October 2026, wounding six Saudi civilians, damaging three homes
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MANILA — The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed on 19 October that seven Filipino workers had been wounded in Saudi Arabia’s
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CAIRO — Egypt’s parliament is debating whether to authorize military support for Saudi Arabia, but the negotiation that matters is not happening
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ABU DHABI — The Gulf’s anti-Iran front is split between a country seeking to defeat Iran and a country seeking to accommodate
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has maintained direct diplomatic channels with Iran throughout the Gulf war, a line its own deputy minister for
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s most important month of international events is breaking apart under Houthi missile strikes, and the calendar items still
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TEHRAN — Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi told the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Baghdad on October 18 that the Strait of
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia spent billions to own the world’s sports calendar. The UCI just pulled an Olympic qualifier from Riyadh because
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia accepted a phone call from Iran on 11 October while Houthi missiles were still hitting Saudi airports and
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RIYADH — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say two supertankers struck mines in the Strait of Hormuz within roughly 24 hours, the first of
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco has no viable fourth export route. CEO Amin Nasser confirmed in September 2026 that the company is studying
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LONDON — The same week that Britain’s maritime trade watchdog published the highest sustained rate of attacks on commercial shipping since the
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DUBAI — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps declared on October 17 that the Strait of Hormuz is closed and that “the passage
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DUBAI — A second supertanker struck a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, the navy of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary
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RIYADH — On the night of October 17, the Saudi Civil Defence pushed a cellular broadcast to every phone in Riyadh warning
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