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WASHINGTON — On the holiest day of the Islamic calendar, with 1.8 million pilgrims standing at Arafat, the Foundation for Defense of

ABU DHABI — Anwar Gargash called the GCC’s response to the Iran war “the weakest historically” on April 27, and when nineteen

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s defence minister went on live television Monday night and told the country that joining the Abraham Accords “clashes with

RIYADH — Iran did not reject the American deal this week. It let the Islamic calendar do the rejecting. From Tarwiyah Day

DOHA — Iran’s parliament speaker landed in Qatar on May 25 carrying a $12 billion demand for frozen assets, the same day

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump told the leaders of eight countries on Saturday that signing the Abraham Accords is “mandatory” for any nation

RIYADH — The Phase 1 framework between Washington and Tehran, confirmed in detail by Axios on May 24, contains a clause that

WASHINGTON — The largest American naval deployment to the Persian Gulf since 1991 is not leaving, and the reason should alarm Riyadh

Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz — the 38-kilometre-wide chokepoint through which approximately 21 million barrels of oil and 120 billion

RIYADH — Donald Trump declared an agreement with Iran “largely negotiated” on Friday, confirming a framework that extends the ceasefire, reopens the

MBS joined a seven-nation call urging Trump to accept. The terms include Iranian enrichment rights Riyadh does not possess, a Hormuz reopening

RIYADH — Asim Munir landed in Tehran on Friday evening to negotiate with the state his own defence treaty obliges him to

RIYADH — When Saudi Arabia restored US military access to Prince Sultan Air Base on May 7, 2026, after a four-day suspension

NEW YORK — Saudi Arabia has recruited 137 countries to demand that Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz. It needs two more

ABU DHABI — The consensus framing of the Saudi-UAE relationship in May 2026 treats the two countries as allies under strain —

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund raised $7 billion in May in its largest-ever single bond sale, drawing an orderbook of

ANTALYA — The International Institute for Strategic Studies, the London-based defence think tank, published a formal analysis in May 2026 identifying Turkey,

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund spent $5.3 billion building LIV Golf into the most expensive diplomatic instrument in sporting history,