RIYADH — Iran’s foreign minister declared on March 8 that Tehran will not seek a ceasefire, telling NBC News that his country needs “to continue fighting for the sake of our people.”
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RIYADH — A military projectile struck a residential compound in Saudi Arabia’s Al-Kharj governorate on Sunday, killing two Bangladeshi nationals and wounding
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RIYADH — Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian apologized to Gulf Arab states on March 8 for the wave of missile and drone attacks
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RIYADH — The United States ordered all non-emergency government employees and their families to leave Saudi Arabia on Saturday, marking the first
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BRUSSELS — Ten days into the most significant Middle Eastern conflict since 2003, Europe has managed to issue statements, dispatch warships, and
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Assembly of Experts on Saturday named Mojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son of assassinated Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, as the
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RIYADH — Ukraine’s low-cost interceptor drones, battle-tested against more than a thousand Iranian-made Shahed kamikaze drones over Ukrainian skies, have emerged as
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The Iran war moved into a more dangerous phase on Sunday, March 8, as the conflict spread beyond military bases, oil installations
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Wars are often narrated as contests over territory, ideology or military prestige. For Saudi Arabia, the Iran war is already something else
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There was a temptation, when the Associated Press reported on Sunday, March 8, that Formula 1 had delayed a decision over whether
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Saudi Arabia and the wider Gulf entered Sunday, March 8, still absorbing the aftershocks of another intense 24 hours in the expanding
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DHAHRAN — Iran sent sixteen drones in four waves at Saudi Arabia’s Shaybah oil field on March 7, 2026, and Saudi air
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is preparing to deploy a third aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East as the war between
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RIYADH — The United States-Gulf security alliance — the bedrock of Middle Eastern stability for more than three decades — fractured during
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has positioned itself as the indispensable mediator in at least four active international conflicts over the past eighteen
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DOHA — Qatar shot down two Iranian Su-24 tactical bombers on 2 March 2026, marking the first aerial combat kill in the
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RIYADH — While Iranian ballistic missiles streak across Gulf skies and drone wreckage smolders on Saudi soil, a parallel war is unfolding
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RIYADH — Iran has fired more than 1,200 missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia and its Gulf neighbours in the seven days
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BAGHDAD — Iraq is disintegrating under the pressure of a war it did not start, cannot stop, and may not survive. Since
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MANAMA — The Strait of Hormuz has seen war before. Between 1981 and 1988, Iraqi jets and Iranian gunboats attacked 411 commercial
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia maintains the fifth-largest defense budget on earth and the most expensive military apparatus in the Arab world, yet
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MECCA — Saudi Arabia faces the most complex security challenge in modern Hajj history as it prepares to receive an estimated 1.8
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LONDON — Britain is sending warships, fighter jets, and intelligence assets to defend Saudi Arabia from Iranian missile and drone strikes, marking
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has intensified its direct diplomatic backchannel to Iran in a high-stakes bid to de-escalate the most dangerous military
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CAIRO — As Iranian ballistic missiles streak across Gulf skies and Saudi air defenses intercept drones over Riyadh, the largest Arab military
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s multi-layered air defense network has intercepted dozens of Iranian ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and attack drones since Tehran
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