Trump and MBS at the White House on November 18, 2025 — the same diplomatic channel through which MBS transmitted the request
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RIYADH — Pakistan has deployed approximately 8,000 combat troops, 16 JF-17 Block III fighters, two drone squadrons, and a Chinese-built HQ-9 air-defense
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WASHINGTON — Trump’s National Security Council meets on Monday to hear CENTCOM commanders present operational plans to physically seize part of the
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WASHINGTON — Iran has restored 30 of 33 IRGC missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz to operational status, according to US
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RIYADH — Amin Nasser, the man who runs the company that is Saudi Arabia’s treasury, told an earnings call on May 11
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RIYADH — Brigadier General Ebrahim Zolfaghari, spokesperson for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters — the apex joint command coordinating both the Islamic
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RIYADH — On Saturday, Tom Barrack sat in Damascus telling Syria’s president that his country was “a laboratory for a new regional
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First VP Aref declares sovereignty “established and closed.” Parliament security chief Azizi says the fee system will be “unveiled soon.” Iranian state
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RIYADH — Operation Project Freedom lasted thirty-six hours before a phone call from Riyadh killed it. On May 4, two US Navy
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RIYADH — The United States and Israel are conducting their most intensive strike preparations since the April ceasefire and could resume attacks
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TEHRAN — Mostafa Taheri did not ask Iran’s parliament for permission to send warships into the Strait of Hormuz, or to mine
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi landed in Tehran on Friday for a two-day visit officially framed as peace facilitation between
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WASHINGTON — Admiral Brad Cooper told the US Senate Armed Services Committee on May 14 that American strikes had degraded 85 percent
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RIYADH — Mohammed bin Salman killed Project Freedom nine days ago. The New York Times reported on May 16 that Washington and
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TEHRAN — Nine months before the strike that killed him, Ali Shamkhani looked into an NBC News camera and said “yes” —
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ABU DHABI — When Mohammed bin Zayed called Mohammed bin Salman in the first days of March 2026 to propose a joint
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RIYADH — Donald Trump, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One as it departed Beijing on May 15, retroactively disowned the ceasefire
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DUBAI — Brent crude hit $111.04 a barrel at 8:45 AM Eastern on Thursday as markets priced in what the Trump-Xi Beijing
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RIYADH — King Salman issued seven royal decrees on May 15, reshuffling deputy-level posts across the National Guard, Finance, Commerce, Tourism, and
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia has roughly 400 PAC-3 MSE interceptors left from a pre-war inventory of 2,800 rounds, and 1.8 million pilgrims
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia is shopping a non-aggression pact between Iran and its Arab neighbours that explicitly invokes the 1975 Helsinki Accords,
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Saudi Arabia’s Co-Belligerent Trap Was Built With Its Own Bombs A Royal Saudi Air Force F-15SA Eagle departs on full afterburner —
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Table of Contents The Strike Near Limah The Floating Armoury Off Fujairah Why Did the IRGC Hit an Indian Ship? What Araghchi
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BEIJING — Xi Jinping’s endorsement that “the Strait of Hormuz must remain open” at the May 14 summit with Donald Trump is
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BEIJING/DUBAI — A Chinese-owned supertanker carrying nearly two million barrels of Iraqi crude oil passed through the Strait of Hormuz on May
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