RIYADH — Saudi Arabia is preparing a ground offensive of more than 100,000 troops to retake the Bab el-Mandeb strait from Houthi
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WASHINGTON — Prince Faisal bin Farhan spent Monday and Tuesday in the American capital meeting Secretary of State Marco Rubio, members of
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RIYADH — Mohammed bin Salman told the Shura Council on Thursday that Gulf security is “indivisible” and that Saudi Arabia “will not
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RIYADH — Iran put a seven-day Hormuz reopening proposal on the table, routed it through Qatar, and watched Donald Trump reject it
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WASHINGTON — The State Department notified Congress on September 17 of a proposed $24.3 billion sale of 48 F-35A Lightning II fighters
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RIYADH — Donald Trump rejected Iran’s seven-day plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday and, according to the Wall Street
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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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RIYADH — More than twenty-four hours after Houthi missiles set the Jizan refinery ablaze and ballistic warheads reached Yanbu — the terminal
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JEDDAH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan spent July 23 on the phone with three counterparts — Qatar’s prime minister,
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WASHINGTON — The United States signed a thirty-year nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia on July 22 that grants the kingdom a
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WASHINGTON — CENTCOM struck Iranian maritime capabilities, coastal surveillance sites, missile and drone storage facilities, and air defence assets on the night
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TEHRAN — On the morning of July 22, 2026, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei told reporters that “diplomacy also knows its
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RIYADH — Saudi Defence Minister Khalid bin Salman and UAE Vice President Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed posted an arm-in-arm photograph on X
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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 arrived in Riyadh on July 21 for his third visit to Saudi Arabia in seven months, one
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WASHINGTON — CENTCOM launched a second wave of strikes against Iran on July 20, announcing the operation at 3 p.m. ET —
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JEDDAH — Yemen’s Houthi armed forces declared a maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia on Monday, closing the Bab al-Mandeb strait to all
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RIYADH — Iranian ballistic missiles struck Prince Sultan Air Base in Al-Kharj on July 18, wounding twelve US service members — two
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DUBAI — Iran’s IRGC Navy said it intercepted four commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, claiming the ships switched
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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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RIYADH — Iranian ballistic missiles struck Prince Sultan Air Base on the night of July 18, 2026, and by dawn three governments
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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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