WASHINGTON — The United States asked NATO allies this week to deliver written plans for securing the Strait of Hormuz “within days,”
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JEDDAH — Britain has deployed its most advanced ground-based air defence system to Saudi Arabia, and it cannot intercept a single one
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DHAHRAN — Iran physically blocked Chinese Cosco-linked tankers from transiting the Strait of Hormuz on April 9, less than 48 hours after
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ISLAMABAD — Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the man Iran has designated to lead its delegation at the Islamabad peace talks on April 10,
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco’s May Official Selling Price for Arab Light crude to Asia, set at a record +$19.50 per barrel above
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TEHRAN — Iran’s president stood in front of the man who runs the Supreme Leader’s intelligence directorate and told him, on record,
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KUWAIT CITY — Iranian drones struck Kuwait’s largest oil refinery, power stations, and water desalination plants on Tuesday morning — hours after
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DHAHRAN — Hours after Iran’s Supreme National Security Council announced it would honor a ceasefire, an IRGC drone struck a pumping station
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RIYADH — SABIC told the Saudi stock exchange on Tuesday that it cannot estimate when its Jubail plants will resume production, warning
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IRGC Dezful (front) and Zolfaqar Basir (rear) ballistic missiles on a launch vehicle at an IRGC Aerospace Force exhibition in Tehran. The
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RIYADH — The Public Investment Fund’s 2026-2030 strategy, formally published this spring, does what no Saudi official has been willing to say
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UNITED NATIONS — Bahrain’s ambassador will walk into the Security Council at 16:00 UTC today knowing Russia is going to veto his
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei broke a 26-day public silence on the morning of April 7 with a written statement
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia shut the King Fahd Causeway early Tuesday, severing the only road between the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain for
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s decision to open King Fahd Air Base in Taif to American offensive strike operations has done what thirty-eight
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates activated air defenses simultaneously against Iranian missile and drone barrages on April
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DUBAI — The Qatari LNG tanker Al Daayen was at 26.10°N / 55.77°E inside the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday morning, moving
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MUSCAT — US and Iranian mediators are circulating a two-phase, 45-day ceasefire framework — the first structured proposal since Steve Witkoff’s direct-talks
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MUSCAT — Oman and Iran held deputy foreign minister-level talks in Muscat on Saturday to draft the terms of a new Hormuz
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Pakistan Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar (left, facing camera) chairs a formal bilateral delegation meeting in 2025 —
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TEHRAN — Iran is not blockading the Strait of Hormuz. It is franchising it. The announcement on April 4 that “brotherly Iraq”
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ABU DHABI — UAE air defenses intercepted every incoming Iranian missile over the Ruwais Industrial Complex at 6:44 AM on Saturday, April
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KUWAIT CITY — Iranian drones struck the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation headquarters in the Shuwaikh Oil Sector Complex early on Saturday, April 5
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