JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia’s $13.1 billion reconstruction commitment to Syria is not charity — it is infrastructure positioning for a world in
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WASHINGTON — On April 16, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood at the Pentagon podium and said out loud what classified intelligence assessments
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JEDDAH — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the IDF to strike Hezbollah “with force” on April 25, 2026, just 48 hours
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WASHINGTON — Three US aircraft carriers are now operating in the Middle East for the first time since the 2003 invasion of
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ISLAMABAD — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi flew into Pakistan’s capital on Saturday, April 24, spent roughly two hours with Prime Minister
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JEDDAH — Ukraine has quietly become a structural participant in the Gulf’s air defense architecture. The “Drone Agreement” signed April 24-25 between
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ISLAMABAD — Donald Trump cancelled the planned Witkoff-Kushner trip to Pakistan on Friday, killing the second round of Iran negotiations roughly one
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ISLAMABAD — Abbas Araghchi flew to Islamabad, met the Pakistani prime minister, handed over a written document, and left before the American
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JEDDAH — The US Overseas Security Advisory Council issued a formal advisory on April 7, 2026, telling American citizens to “reconsider participating
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JEDDAH — The same day an Iranian-made Shahed drone destroyed a $500 million E-3G AWACS at Prince Sultan Air Base — March
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco cut the Official Selling Price for Arab Light crude to Asia by $0.40 per barrel for July loading,
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TEHRAN — Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi cannot open the Strait of Hormuz. Not because he lacks the will — his April
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ISLAMABAD — Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi landed at Nur Khan air base in Rawalpindi late Thursday night, was greeted personally by
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco is forecast to report a 57% quarter-on-quarter profit surge for Q1 2026 — $29.01 billion in net income,
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WASHINGTON — The US Treasury on Friday designated Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery Co., Ltd., a Fortune Global 500 company and China’s second-largest
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s refusal to fire a single shot at Iran across nearly two months of war is not restraint born
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ISLAMABAD — Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi left Tehran on the evening of April 24 for a three-capital tour — Islamabad, Muscat,
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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth publicly rejected a classified Pentagon assessment — briefed to the House Armed Services Committee around April
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JEDDAH — More than 48,000 foreign pilgrims had arrived in Saudi Arabia by April 24 for Hajj 2026, according to aggregated figures
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ISLAMABAD — The United States is sending Jared Kushner — a man who collects $25 million a year in management fees from
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ISLAMABAD — Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi landed at Nur Khan airbase late Friday carrying what Pakistani officials described as a written
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ISLAMABAD — Saudi Arabia froze Pakistan’s $1.5 billion Sudan arms deal and handed Pakistan $3 billion in fresh deposits in the same
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WASHINGTON — The United States military has identified IRGC Commander-in-Chief Ahmad Vahidi as a named strike target, CNN reported April 23, framing
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has formally abandoned the idea that The Line matters, and in doing so has answered
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DHAHRAN — Baker Hughes CFO Ahmed Moghal told investors on Thursday that the company is planning for the Strait of Hormuz to
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NICOSIA — Saudi Arabia was not in the room when the European Union convened Arab leaders at Cyprus’s Filoxenia Conference Centre on
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