DUBAI — Iranian drones struck oil storage facilities at Fujairah on Saturday, triggering a fire at the world’s second-largest bunkering hub and forcing a suspension of crude and refined-product loading operations at
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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei was “wounded and likely disfigured” in the
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RIYADH — On the fourteenth day of the Iran war, March 14, 2026, Saudi Arabia’s air defense batteries had intercepted 25 ballistic
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DUBAI — The International Maritime Organization warned on Friday that more than 3,000 commercial vessels and 20,000 seafarers remain stranded across the
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DHAHRAN — President Donald Trump announced on March 13 that the United States had “totally obliterated every MILITARY target” on Iran’s Kharg
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JEDDAH — Formula 1 is set to cancel both the Bahrain Grand Prix and the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in April 2026,
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BEIJING — China imports roughly 40 percent of its crude oil and 30 percent of its liquefied natural gas through the Strait
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday night temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian oil shipments in an effort to cool surging energy
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia is building fifteen stadiums, training one hundred and thirty-four facilities, and preparing to welcome more than a million
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RIYADH — An explosion struck Tehran’s Ferdowsi Square on Friday during the annual Al-Quds Day rally, killing at least one person and
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SANAA — Thirteen days into the most destructive conflict the Middle East has seen since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the region’s
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WASHINGTON — The United States admitted on Wednesday that its Navy cannot yet escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, ten
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AMMAN — Jordan declares itself neutral. Its F-16s are shooting down Iranian drones. Its largest air base has been hit by 119
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MUSCAT — Two foreign workers were killed and several others injured on Friday when Iranian drones crashed into an industrial area in
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NEW DELHI — India is staring down its worst energy crisis since the 1973 oil embargo, and unlike that distant shock, this
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia intercepted 56 drones and two ballistic missiles on Friday as Iran launched its largest single-day aerial assault against
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JEDDAH — When Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif landed in Saudi Arabia on March 12 for an emergency meeting with Crown Prince
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ERBIL — A French soldier was killed and six others wounded on Thursday when an Iranian-made Shahed drone struck a coalition base
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DOHA — The Strait of Hormuz crisis has removed roughly twenty percent of the world’s liquefied natural gas supply from international markets,
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RIYADH — Saudi air defenses intercepted and destroyed 31 drones and three ballistic missiles on Wednesday in what the Ministry of Defense
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has absorbed more than two hundred Iranian drones and missiles since February 28 without firing a single offensive
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ANKARA — Sirens sounded at Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey early on Friday, waking residents of the nearby city of Adana
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The geopolitical landscape of the Middle East has been fundamentally reconfigured during the ongoing high-intensity conflict. This report provides an exhaustive technical
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RIYADH — Operation Maritime Shield, the G7-coordinated naval escort initiative announced on March 10, will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz in
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia on Wednesday launched emergency logistics corridors to redirect container shipping and commercial cargo from the war-disrupted Persian Gulf
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DHAHRAN — Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia collectively supply roughly a quarter of the world’s oil and a fifth of its liquefied
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