TEHRAN — On the night of April 1, an airstrike hit the home of Kamal Kharazi, the 81-year-old former Iranian foreign minister
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TEHRAN — An IRGC “military council” of senior officers has seized de facto control of Iran’s government, cutting President Masoud Pezeshkian off
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ABU DHABI — Iran is not trying to overwhelm Saudi Arabia, the UAE, or Kuwait individually — it is trying to drain
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ISLAMABAD — Iran’s foreign minister went on Al Jazeera on April 1 and told the world his country is ready to fight
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VIENNA — The world’s strategic petroleum reserves — the last emergency buffer between a managed oil crisis and an unmanaged one —
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WASHINGTON — The 82nd Airborne Division is loading onto C-17s with orders to seize Iran’s oil infrastructure by force. Thirteen thousand paratroopers
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RIYADH — Iran is not trying to beat Saudi Arabia’s air defenses. It is trying to empty them. On Monday morning, seven
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DUBAI — An Iranian drone struck the Kuwaiti supertanker Al Salmi just after midnight on Tuesday inside Dubai’s anchorage zone, setting fire
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RIYADH — Thirty-one days without reliable air travel has turned Saudi Arabia from the Middle East’s most connected economy into something approaching
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia spent a single weekend calling for peace, lobbying for war, and denying it had done either. On March
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AL KHARJ — Ground-level photographs and satellite imagery geolocated to Prince Sultan Air Base have confirmed the destruction of a U.S. Air
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KUWAIT CITY — An Iranian drone struck a service building at a Kuwaiti power and water desalination plant on Sunday, killing one
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JEDDAH — Ukraine and Saudi Arabia signed a defense cooperation memorandum of understanding on March 27, marking Kyiv’s first military agreement with
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The Shield Has a Timer and the Coalition Defending Saudi Arabia Knows It RIYADH — The multinational air defense coalition protecting Saudi
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DOHA — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Sunday declared all American and Israeli university campuses across the Gulf region “legitimate targets,”
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WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance declared on March 28 that the United States will continue fighting in Iran “a little while
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YANBU — Saudi Aramco’s East-West Pipeline reached its designed maximum throughput of 7 million barrels per day on Friday, Bloomberg reported, the
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan will host the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt for two days of talks beginning March 30,
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DUBAI — Iran has begun charging commercial vessels up to $2 million per voyage to transit the Strait of Hormuz, Bloomberg reported
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PARIS — G7 foreign ministers meeting at the Abbaye des Vaux-de-Cernay outside Paris on March 27 issued a joint statement condemning Iran’s
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RIYADH — Gulf Arab states led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have told the United States that any agreement
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RIYADH — Israel struck two of Iran’s nuclear facilities on Friday, hitting the Arak heavy water reactor complex and the Ardakan yellowcake
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco has shut down four of its largest offshore oil fields in the Persian Gulf, idling an estimated 2
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BEIJING — Four weeks into the most consequential Middle East conflict since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the conventional wisdom has settled
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