RIYADH — Iran warned on Wednesday that it would strike Saudi Arabia’s Samref refinery in Yanbu and the Jubail Petrochemical Complex in the Eastern Province after Israeli warplanes, in coordination with the
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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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ANKARA — Turkey has absorbed three Iranian ballistic missiles in eighteen days of war, watched NATO shoot them down over its own
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BAGHDAD — Rockets and at least five explosives-laden drones struck the United States Embassy compound and surrounding areas in Baghdad’s fortified Green
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul All Share Index lost 12 percent of its value in the first week of the Iran war,
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TEHRAN — Iran issued a new statement attributed to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Monday, but the 56-year-old cleric has not appeared
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ABU DHABI — An Iranian drone struck the Shah gas field in Abu Dhabi on Monday, setting fire to one of the
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RIYADH — The missiles and drones that have struck Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Jordan since February 28
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RIYADH — Seventeen days into Iran’s retaliatory drone and missile campaign against Gulf states, the conflict’s civilian toll has fallen disproportionately on
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RIYADH — Seventeen days into the Iran war, the global conversation remains fixated on oil prices, missile trajectories, and the geopolitics of
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WASHINGTON — The United States is allowing Iranian oil tankers to transit the Strait of Hormuz even as the two countries remain
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RIYADH — On April 17, 2025, Prince Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud walked into a Tehran reception hall and delivered
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump spent the weekend working the phones to assemble a multinational naval coalition to reopen the Strait of
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia called Iran a “sister nation” and condemned American-Israeli strikes against it in June 2025. Nine months later, the
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RIYADH — United States fighter jets struck military facilities near Iran’s Chabahar Free Trade Zone on Monday, according to Voice of America
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LONDON — The world’s attention is fixed on oil. Brent crude at $102. Strategic reserves dwindling. Pipelines running at capacity. But seventeen
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump warned NATO allies of a “very bad future” if they failed to assist American forces in reopening
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RIYADH — The Iran war has inflicted more economic damage on Gulf states in seventeen days than the entire Covid-19 pandemic did
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BEIRUT — Israeli armored forces crossed into southern Lebanon on Monday in what the Israel Defense Forces called “limited and targeted ground
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DHAHRAN — The International Energy Agency announced on March 11 the largest coordinated release of emergency oil reserves in history — 400
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BRUSSELS — European Union energy ministers gathered in Brussels on March 16 for an emergency session to confront the worst energy price
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RIYADH — The Iran war has cost the United States between $12 billion and $16.5 billion in its first seventeen days, according
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