RIYADH — Three weeks into the 2026 Iran war, at least twelve nations and international actors have offered to broker a ceasefire between Washington and Tehran. Not one has succeeded. The reason
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WASHINGTON — The United States Treasury Department on March 20, 2026, issued a 30-day sanctions waiver permitting the sale of approximately 140
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YANBU — An Iranian drone crashed into Saudi Arabia’s Samref oil refinery in the Red Sea port city of Yanbu on Thursday,
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has quietly dismantled its most ambitious megaproject, breaking NEOM into at least five separate entities managed by different
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DHAHRAN — Brent crude oil surged past $119 per barrel on March 19 before crashing back below $111 within hours, capping the
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia possesses the most expensive and extensively equipped military in the Arab world, a force that has absorbed more
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RIYADH — Foreign ministers from twelve Arab and Islamic nations issued a joint statement on Wednesday condemning Iran’s sustained missile and drone
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has spent twenty days absorbing Iranian missiles, drones, and ballistic warheads without firing a single offensive shot at
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WASHINGTON — The United States approved more than $16.5 billion in emergency arms sales to the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Jordan
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DHAHRAN — The Iran war has destroyed something the world cannot quickly replace, and it is not crude oil. Three weeks of
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RIYADH — Iranian drones struck oil infrastructure in Kuwait and targeted military and energy sites across four Gulf states on Friday morning
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TOKYO — Japan and South Korea confront their most severe energy crisis since the 1973 Arab oil embargo, yet neither country has
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YANBU — A Greek-operated Patriot air defense battery stationed at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea port of Yanbu intercepted two Iranian ballistic missiles
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RIYADH — Iran declared twelve Gulf oil and gas facilities across five nations to be legitimate military targets on March 18, hours
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has asked the White House to approve a supplemental budget request to Congress exceeding $200 billion to fund
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DOHA — The conventional wisdom about this war’s energy toll is wrong. Analysts, traders, and governments have fixated on the Strait of
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Civil Defense authority pushed an emergency alert to millions of mobile phones across Riyadh on Wednesday evening, warning
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RIYADH — While Iranian missiles and drones dominate the headlines, a parallel conflict is unfolding across the Gulf’s digital infrastructure that may
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to “massively blow up the entirety” of Iran’s South Pars gas field — the
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister stood at a podium in the early hours of Thursday and said something no Saudi official
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DOHA — Qatar ordered Iran’s military and security attachés to leave the country within 24 hours on Wednesday after an Iranian missile
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DHAHRAN — Iran’s March 18 strikes against Ras Laffan, Habshan, and Saudi Arabia’s Jubail Petrochemical Complex marked a threshold that no ceasefire
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RIYADH — Iran warned on Wednesday that it would strike Saudi Arabia’s Samref refinery in Yanbu and the Jubail Petrochemical Complex in
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia will celebrate Eid al-Fitr on March 20 under conditions no living Saudi has experienced: the country is at
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RIYADH — Israel killed Iran’s intelligence minister Esmaeil Khatib in an overnight airstrike on Tehran early Wednesday, making him the third senior
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RIYADH — Ali Larijani spent decades navigating the corridors of Iranian power as philosopher, nuclear negotiator, and parliament speaker. On March 17,
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