YANBU — An Iranian drone crashed into Saudi Arabia’s Samref oil refinery in the Red Sea port city of Yanbu on Thursday, the Kingdom’s Defense Ministry confirmed, marking the first time Tehran’s
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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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RIYADH — Human Rights Watch on Monday published its most detailed investigation into civilian casualties from Iranian drone and missile attacks across
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RIYADH — The destruction of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure in the opening hours of Operation Epic Fury eliminated the Middle East’s most advanced
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia convened an emergency ministerial meeting of foreign ministers from Arab and Islamic nations in Riyadh on Wednesday evening,
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RIYADH — Ukraine’s four-year war against Russian-operated Iranian Shahed drones has produced exactly what the Gulf states now need most: interceptor drones
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BRUSSELS — European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday rejected expanding the bloc’s naval mission to the Strait of Hormuz,
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DHAHRAN — Iran launched nearly one hundred drones at Saudi Arabia on Monday, the largest single-day barrage since the war began eighteen
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RIYADH — Goldman Sachs has warned that Gulf Arab economies face their sharpest downturn in a generation as the Iran war grinds
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CAIRO — Egypt commands the largest military in the Arab world — 438,500 active troops, 218 F-16 fighters, 54 Dassault Rafale jets,
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DUBAI — Gulf Arab states that spent years rebuilding diplomatic ties with Tehran are now pressing the United States to ensure Iran
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MOSCOW — Russia did not fire a single missile at Iran. It did not deploy a warship to the Persian Gulf. It
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia is deploying reinforced security across its holiest cities and tightening access to major mosques as the Kingdom prepares
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RIYADH — Israel claims to have killed Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and the man widely regarded
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RIYADH — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a direct threat on March 16 ordering the evacuation of all American-linked industrial facilities
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