BEIRUT — Israeli warplanes struck Hezbollah command infrastructure in Beirut’s Dahiyeh district on June 7, 2026, killing at least two people and wounding eleven others in the first bombardment of the Lebanese
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WASHINGTON — The State Department approved a $1.98 billion counter-drone sale to Kuwait on June 6 — the same day IRGC missiles
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco will disburse $21.89 billion to shareholders on June 9, and its cash reserves will drop from $75.2 billion
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MUSCAT — Iran formally rejected the Trump administration’s memorandum of understanding on June 6, 2026, and simultaneously submitted an alternative proposal through
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JEDDAH — Iran filled roughly a third of its Hajj 2026 quota, dispatching approximately 30,000 pilgrims against an allocation of 87,550, and
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BEIRUT — Lebanon’s president told Iran on live television that it is using his country as a bargaining chip in nuclear negotiations
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VIENNA — On June 5, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told reporters that the United States and Iran appeared “pretty close” to
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VIENNA — The International Atomic Energy Agency circulated its first assessment of Iran’s nuclear programme since the war began on Thursday, telling
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BEIRUT — Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Naim Qassem did not just decline the June 4 Israel-Lebanon ceasefire. He called it “absurd, humiliating and insulting”
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RIYADH — The State Department cleared $8.6 billion in emergency arms sales to four Middle Eastern partners on May 3, handing Qatar
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RIYADH — OPEC+ will add 188,000 barrels per day to global supply on Sunday, June 7 — a pre-committed increase Saudi Arabia
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RIYADH — IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi held separate meetings with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan and Energy Minister Prince
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RIYADH — The US Army’s FY2027 budget request for 2,798 PAC-3 MSE interceptors is a $12.2 billion claim on the only factory
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RIYADH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan ended fourteen days of public silence on the Iran crisis with a concentrated
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline — the Petroline — reached its physical maximum throughput of seven million barrels per day on
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WASHINGTON — Iran and the United States are no longer negotiating the same Phase 1. On June 2, Secretary of State Marco
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RIYADH — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa on June 4 and condemned what
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WASHINGTON — Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah met Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the State Department on June
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WASHINGTON — Trump told his cabinet on June 4 that an Iran deal could come “this weekend.” The pipeline through which that
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BEIRUT — The Lebanon ceasefire formalized on June 4 between the United States, Israel, and Lebanon was built to remove the obstacle
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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress on June 3 that President Trump opposes “changes in the status in the
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WASHINGTON — The US House of Representatives voted 215–208 on June 3 to pass H.Con.Res.38, a concurrent resolution invoking Section 5(c) of
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, and Turkey held three foreign ministers’ meetings in thirty-one days between March 19 and April 18,
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The IMF Just Made Saudi Arabia’s Recovery Conditional on Iran Opening the Strait of Hormuz RIYADH — The International Monetary Fund published
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia killed America’s Hormuz escort mission in early May by suspending US access to Prince Sultan Air Base and
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump said in a White House podcast interview published Wednesday that Iran has “already agreed they’re not going to
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