ISLAMABAD — Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi left Tehran on the evening of April 24 for a three-capital tour — Islamabad, Muscat,
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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth publicly rejected a classified Pentagon assessment — briefed to the House Armed Services Committee around April
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ISLAMABAD — The United States is sending Jared Kushner — a man who collects $25 million a year in management fees from
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ISLAMABAD — Saudi Arabia froze Pakistan’s $1.5 billion Sudan arms deal and handed Pakistan $3 billion in fresh deposits in the same
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WASHINGTON — The United States military has identified IRGC Commander-in-Chief Ahmad Vahidi as a named strike target, CNN reported April 23, framing
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has formally abandoned the idea that The Line matters, and in doing so has answered
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DHAHRAN — Baker Hughes CFO Ahmed Moghal told investors on Thursday that the company is planning for the Strait of Hormuz to
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DHAHRAN — Five commercial vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz in the 24 hours to April 24, 2026 — down from a
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia is privately lobbying the United States to lift its naval blockade of Iranian ports, and the reason has
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WASHINGTON — The US military seized the sanctioned oil tanker Majestic X in the Indian Ocean on April 23, a second interdiction
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TEHRAN — The man who holds the only constitutional authority to override the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps communicates by handwritten notes carried
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VIENNA — China, Russia, and Iran jointly met IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi in Vienna on April 24 — the third trilateral
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WASHINGTON — President Trump told reporters from the Oval Office on April 24 that Iran “must” stop financing Hezbollah as a condition
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Table of Contents The Custodian’s Arithmetic How Many PAC-3 Rounds Does Saudi Arabia Have Left? One Factory in Arkansas Can Allied Transfers
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WASHINGTON — The USS George H.W. Bush and its carrier strike group entered the US Central Command area of responsibility on April
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DUBAI — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired on a third commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday morning and,
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{“content”: “ RIYADH u2014 Donald Trump told ABC News on April 23 that he is under no time pressure to end the
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TEHRAN — Brent crude pushed above $105 a barrel on Wednesday and Polymarket’s wagering on a US-Iran peace deal by April 30
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TEHRAN — Iran’s deputy speaker of parliament Hamidreza Hajibabaei confirmed on Wednesday that the first revenue from Tehran’s Strait of Hormuz toll
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Table of Contents The 57% Profit Surge on 30% Less Oil How Does Aramco Actually Pay the Saudi State? The IPO Split:
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WASHINGTON — The USS Spruance put several rounds from its 5-inch gun into the engine room of a 295-metre Iranian container ship
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Table of Contents Thirteen Days from Veto to Coordination What Changed in the April 20 Call? The Economic Arithmetic Behind the Alignment
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Table of Contents What Does 31 Vessels Actually Mean? Trump Kills the Clock The IRGC Answers Within Hours Saudi Arabia’s Indefinite Arithmetic
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RIYADH — Ukraine signed 10-year defence cooperation agreements with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar between March 27 and 30, covering drone
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WASHINGTON — The White House ruled on April 22, 2026 that Iran’s seizure of two commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz
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