WASHINGTON — Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah met Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the State Department on June 4, 2026 — less than 24 hours after Iranian missiles
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MANAMA — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired coordinated missile and drone strikes at Naval Support Activity Bahrain — headquarters of the
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has drawn approximately 58 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve since the Iran war began on
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RIYADH — Seven oil ministers will convene virtually on June 7 to approve a production increase that none of them can physically
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WASHINGTON — Marco Rubio told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Monday that Mojtaba Khamenei is “increasingly engaging” through written intermediaries and,
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DUBAI — The IRGC Navy fired two Noor cruise missiles at the MSC Sariska V, a Panama-flagged container ship departing Iraq’s Umm
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BEIRUT — President Donald Trump announced on June 1 that he had brokered a ceasefire in Lebanon through “highly placed representatives” of
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DHAHRAN — When UAE Energy Minister Suhail Al Mazrouei told CNBC on April 28 that “our exit at this time is the
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RIYADH — On June 1, Donald Trump told ABC News a deal with Iran could happen “over the next week,” and on
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President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the US-Saudi investment forum in Riyadh, May 13, 2025 — the same day
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TEHRAN — Iran is preparing a formal rejection of the Trump administration’s memorandum of understanding proposal, Reuters reported on June 2, citing
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TEHRAN — Iran’s president may not have resigned, but the institution he nominally leads has already been emptied of the authority that
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WASHINGTON — Trump announced a Lebanon ceasefire on June 1, 2026. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz denied it existed within hours. Iran’s
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WASHINGTON — Iran suspended all mediator-channel negotiations with the United States, fired two ballistic missiles at an American air base in Kuwait,
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TEHRAN — Iran suspended all US-mediated MOU negotiations on June 1 and declared through its IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency that the resistance
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RIYADH — Iran allowed the first inbound commercial vessel through the Strait of Hormuz since the February 28 closure to dock at
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KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait signed a $1.02 billion NASAMS contract with Raytheon on May 26, a deal that will clear the US
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Central Command struck Iranian radar installations and drone command-and-control sites at Goruk and on Qeshm Island over the weekend,
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NEOM — PIF’s Board of Directors, chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, approved the fund’s 2026-2030 strategy on April 15, 2026,
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WASHINGTON — The amended MOU text that Donald Trump sent back to Iran on May 31 cannot be read by the one
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VIENNA — The International Atomic Energy Agency reported on May 31, 2026, that Iran has accumulated a “record” stockpile of military-grade enriched
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RIYADH — Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told American evangelical leader Mike Evans in a private meeting — attended by Saudi Foreign
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