Correction, October 12, 2026: An earlier version of this article said Pakistan had deployed 30,000 to 40,000 troops to Saudi Arabia; Reuters
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Correction, October 12, 2026: An earlier version of this article said Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called President Trump twice on September
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Correction, October 12, 2026: An earlier version of this article said the Strait of Hormuz had been continuously closed for 213 days;
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Correction, October 12, 2026: An earlier version of this article said Iranian missiles struck Saudi territory during the congressional review period; the
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Correction, October 12, 2026: An earlier version of this article said Saudi crude exports recovered to 6 million barrels per day in
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WASHINGTON — The State Department notified Congress on September 17 of a proposed $24.3 billion sale of forty-eight F-35A stealth fighters to
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Correction, October 12, 2026: An earlier version of this article said five tankers reversed course after the Houthi warning; LSEG shipping data
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WASHINGTON — The United States signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia on July 22 that is expected to run
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MANAMA — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed on July 21 that it struck and destroyed Amazon Web Services’ data center in
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NEW DELHI — Ajit Doval met Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan in Riyadh on July 20, his second reported visit
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Correction, October 12, 2026: Correction: An earlier version of this article said CENTCOM launched a second same-day wave of strikes on Iran
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Correction, October 12, 2026: This article has been corrected. An earlier version said the Houthis closed four Saudi airports by NOTAM on
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Correction, October 12, 2026: An earlier version of this article said Iranian missiles struck Prince Sultan Air Base on July 18, 2026,
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Correction, October 12, 2026: An earlier version of this article said Iran had not closed the Strait of Hormuz and was keeping
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KUWAIT CITY — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps hit the US Navy’s fuel pier at Kuwait’s Mina Al-Ahmadi port and the AR-327
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TEHRAN — Mohsen Rezaei’s seventy-two-hour ultimatum expires on July 19 with American bombers still flying, and the man who issued it does
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RIYADH — Iran struck Prince Sultan Air Base south of Al-Kharj on July 17 for the third time since March, with state
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RIYADH — Iran’s ballistic missile struck Prince Sultan Air Base on July 18 not because Saudi Arabia lacked interceptors, but because its
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Correction, October 12, 2026: An earlier version of this article said Iranian missiles struck Prince Sultan Air Base on the night of
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WASHINGTON — US strikes on Iran widened to central and southern Iran on July 18, with fighter jets employed for the first
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RIYADH — Mohsen Rezaei, the longest-serving commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ history and formal military adviser to a Supreme Leader
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MUSCAT — The Sultanate of Oman on July 17 issued the first formal “condemnation and denunciation” it has ever directed at the
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DOHA — Iran struck Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar overnight on July 16-17, wounding four people including a child with interception
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RIYADH — On July 16, the State Department approved $1.96 billion in laser-guided rockets for Saudi Arabia — 20,000 APKWS-II kits manufactured
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RIYADH — Saudi aviation authorities issued a coordinated NOTAM sequence on the evening of July 13, 2026, closing four southern civilian airports
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