LONDON — Donald Trump and Keir Starmer spoke by phone on April 26 and agreed on what Downing Street called “the urgent
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon told the House Armed Services Committee on April 22 that clearing Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz
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BANDAR ABBAS — An explosion ripped through the Sina Port container yard at Shahid Rajaei port at 12:20 local time on April
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NICOSIA — The GCC Secretary-General flew to Cyprus last week and, over an informal working lunch with Ursula von der Leyen and
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia is absorbing 83% of Iran’s missile and drone strikes, bleeding 3.15 million barrels per day in lost oil
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DHAHRAN — Goldman Sachs has given Saudi Arabia’s nightmare a name, and it sounds almost reassuring. Jared Cohen, co-head of the bank’s
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Saudi FM Prince Faisal bin Farhan signs a bilateral agreement with Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski in Warsaw, January 2026 — his
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BEIJING — Xi Jinping’s April 20 phone call with Mohammed bin Salman — in which the Chinese president called for “normal passage
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia published its Vision 2030 Annual Report on April 25, 2026 — the plan’s tenth anniversary — claiming 93%
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Table of Contents Two Missiles, One Tanker, and the Navy That Came Running What Was Andromeda Star Carrying and Who Owns It?
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RIYADH — Three ministerial meetings in thirty-eight days, Pakistani fighter jets landing at King Abdulaziz Air Base, and a collective security clause
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JEDDAH — Iran is reportedly designing the toll mechanism the Houthis intend to impose on Bab el-Mandeb, transferring the same fee architecture
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TEHRAN — Iran’s onshore oil storage reached functional capacity on or around April 26, triggering the forced shut-in of wells across the
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ABU DHABI — While Saudi Arabia was building a ceasefire, the UAE was bombing Iranian oil infrastructure — and Tehran’s formal UN
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RIYADH — The Gulf Cooperation Council was built to coordinate prosperity. It was never designed to fight a war — and 57
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on April 23 ordered the US Navy to “shoot and kill” any vessel laying mines in the
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WASHINGTON — On April 16, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood at the Pentagon podium and said out loud what classified intelligence assessments
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JEDDAH — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the IDF to strike Hezbollah “with force” on April 25, 2026, just 48 hours
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WASHINGTON — Three US aircraft carriers are now operating in the Middle East for the first time since the 2003 invasion of
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ISLAMABAD — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi flew into Pakistan’s capital on Saturday, April 24, spent roughly two hours with Prime Minister
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ISLAMABAD — Donald Trump cancelled the planned Witkoff-Kushner trip to Pakistan on Friday, killing the second round of Iran negotiations roughly one
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ISLAMABAD — Abbas Araghchi flew to Islamabad, met the Pakistani prime minister, handed over a written document, and left before the American
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JEDDAH — The same day an Iranian-made Shahed drone destroyed a $500 million E-3G AWACS at Prince Sultan Air Base — March
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ISLAMABAD — Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi landed at Nur Khan air base in Rawalpindi late Thursday night, was greeted personally by
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s refusal to fire a single shot at Iran across nearly two months of war is not restraint born
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