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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KUWAIT CITY — Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted on X on May 13 that Kuwait had “unlawfully attacked an Iranian boat”
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia conducted covert airstrikes on Iranian territory in late March 2026 as a confirmed participant in Operation Epic Fury,
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RIYADH — On May 13, 2026, as Donald Trump landed in Riyadh to formalize a $142 billion arms package alongside the political
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RIYADH — The last time an American president sat across from a Syrian head of state was March 26, 2000, when Bill
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{“content”: “ RIYADH u2014 Iran cannot tell the world where it put its own mines, and that single fact has made every
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WASHINGTON — Pete Hegseth told the Senate Armed Services Committee on May 12 that America’s munitions shortages have been “foolishly and unhelpfully
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KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait arrested four Iranian Revolutionary Guard officers who infiltrated Bubiyan Island by sea on May 1, opening fire on
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WASHINGTON — The United States fired more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles during Operation Epic Fury, burned through roughly 80 percent of
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RIYADH — On April 7, Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies co-sponsored a UN Security Council resolution on the Strait of Hormuz
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Table of Contents Seven Times “Treacherous” — and Counting What Did Al-Budaiwi’s Statement Actually Authorize? Why Did the GCC Drop Its Article
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LONDON — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan arrived in the UK on May 11 for a bilateral with Foreign Secretary
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BEIJING — On Sunday evening, Donald Trump told CBS News the April 8 ceasefire had “approximately a 1% chance of living” —
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RIYADH — For seventy-two hours between May 5 and May 8, Saudi Arabia did something it has not done since the Iraq
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NEW DELHI — Iran’s foreign minister reversed his decision to skip the BRICS Foreign Ministers Meeting in New Delhi, confirming on May
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Muscat’s Muttrah Corniche, the Omani capital that has hosted all four rounds of indirect US-Iran talks in 2026 — Oman’s role as
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