DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco’s May Official Selling Price for Arab Light crude to Asia, set at a record +$19.50 per barrel above the Oman/Dubai average when Brent was trading at $109 on
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UNITED NATIONS — Russia and China vetoed the United Nations Security Council resolution on the Strait of Hormuz on April 7, killing
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DHAHRAN — The United States struck more than 50 military targets on Kharg Island on April 7, the second systematic destruction of
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JEDDAH — Approximately 3,200 commercial vessels and 20,000 seafarers remain trapped in Gulf waters west of the Strait of Hormuz, caught inside
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IRGC Dezful (front) and Zolfaqar Basir (rear) ballistic missiles on a launch vehicle at an IRGC Aerospace Force exhibition in Tehran. The
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RIYADH — The Public Investment Fund’s 2026-2030 strategy, formally published this spring, does what no Saudi official has been willing to say
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DHAHRAN — Iranian ballistic missile debris struck SABIC’s petrochemical complex at Jubail Industrial City on April 7, igniting a fire at the
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DHAHRAN — The United States has struck Kharg Island twice in thirty-six days. Both times it left the oil terminals standing. The
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defense on Monday released its first cumulative air defense tally since the Iran war began, reporting
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UNITED NATIONS — Bahrain’s ambassador will walk into the Security Council at 16:00 UTC today knowing Russia is going to veto his
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei broke a 26-day public silence on the morning of April 7 with a written statement
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TEHRAN — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is tonight the sole functioning command authority in Iran, operating without civilian oversight or constitutional
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia shut the King Fahd Causeway early Tuesday, severing the only road between the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain for
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Trump Says Iran Can Be “Taken Out in One Night” — the 155-Aircraft Math That Tells a Different Story
WASHINGTON — It took 155 aircraft — four bombers, 64 fighters, 48 aerial refueling tankers, 13 rescue planes, and 26 intelligence and
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Table of Contents Ten Points Against Fifteen: The Written Exchange What Did Trump Actually Say at the Easter Egg Roll? The Phase
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DHAHRAN — Aramco priced May-loading Arab Light crude to Asia at +$19.50 per barrel over the Oman/Dubai average — the highest official
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ASALUYEH — Israel struck the South Pars petrochemical complex at Asaluyeh on April 6, 2026, at approximately 2:10 p.m. local time, killing
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RIYADH — The Public Investment Fund released its 2026-2030 strategy during the week Saudi exports through the Strait of Hormuz fell to
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RIYADH — Iran’s state media declared on April 6 that its forces had destroyed 12 US aircraft since April 3 — a
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s decision to open King Fahd Air Base in Taif to American offensive strike operations has done what thirty-eight
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates activated air defenses simultaneously against Iranian missile and drone barrages on April
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Iran Rejects Trump’s Hormuz Deadline Because No One Inside Tehran Can Accept It TEHRAN — Iran’s rejection of the Trump administration’s Hormuz
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DUBAI — The Qatari LNG tanker Al Daayen was at 26.10°N / 55.77°E inside the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday morning, moving
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DOHA — Two laden Qatar LNG tankers, the Al Daayen and the Rasheeda, are pushing toward the Hormuz exit right now —
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MUSCAT — US and Iranian mediators are circulating a two-phase, 45-day ceasefire framework — the first structured proposal since Steve Witkoff’s direct-talks
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DHAHRAN — The United States is bombing Iranian military infrastructure with B-2s while licensing the sale of Iranian crude whose revenues fund
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