DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco has shut down four of its largest offshore oil fields in the Persian Gulf, idling an estimated 2
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BEIJING — Four weeks into the most consequential Middle East conflict since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the conventional wisdom has settled
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PARIS — Group of Seven foreign ministers issued a joint statement on March 27 demanding an immediate end to attacks on civilians
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WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance confronted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a tense phone call earlier this week, accusing the
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior announced on Thursday that all visit, Umrah, transit, and final exit visas expired since February
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia is sitting on $2.5 trillion in untapped mineral reserves, and the state-owned mining giant Ma’aden has just announced
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JEDDAH — Ukraine and Saudi Arabia signed a defense cooperation agreement on Friday during a surprise visit by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Jordan issued a joint declaration on Wednesday invoking Article 51
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THE HAGUE — Twenty-eight days into the most consequential military confrontation since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, neither the United States nor
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JEDDAH — China’s state-owned shipping giant COSCO resumed commercial deliveries to the Persian Gulf on March 25, making it the first major
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RIYADH — Twenty-eight days into the Iran war, global attention remains locked on oil prices, missile trajectories, and the geopolitics of the
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is considering whether to redirect approximately $750 million in military aid earmarked for Ukraine to the Middle East,
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RIYADH — Twenty-eight days ago, on the night of February 28, American and Israeli warplanes struck targets across Iran in what Washington
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RIYADH — NEOM has terminated three major construction contracts at its Trojena mountain resort worth a combined $6 billion in the space
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has become the single most consequential neutral actor in the Iran war, serving as the sole diplomatic channel between
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BAGHDAD — Iraq authorized its Popular Mobilization Forces to retaliate against the United States after two days of American airstrikes killed at
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RIYADH — Twenty-seven days into the Iran war, the most dangerous military force in the Middle East has not fired a single
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KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait’s Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday the arrest of six individuals linked to Hezbollah who had confessed to planning
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TEHRAN — Iran’s war against the United States and its Gulf allies was supposed to demonstrate the Islamic Republic’s strategic depth. Instead,
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump extended a pause on strikes against Iran’s energy infrastructure by ten days on Thursday, pushing the deadline
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DHAHRAN — Brent crude oil settled below $100 per barrel on Tuesday for the first time since the Iran war began on
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ISLAMABAD — The White House is working to arrange Vice President JD Vance’s travel to Pakistan this weekend for what would be
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RIYADH — Twenty-six days into the most destructive conflict the Persian Gulf has witnessed since 1991, Saudi Arabia faces a paradox that
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WASHINGTON — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has privately urged President Donald Trump to deploy American ground troops inside Iran and
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RIYADH — Twenty-six days of war between the United States, Israel, and Iran have triggered the sharpest surge in global defense spending
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