RIYADH — Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian apologized to Gulf Arab states on March 8 for the wave of missile and drone attacks
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RIYADH — The United States ordered all non-emergency government employees and their families to leave Saudi Arabia on Saturday, marking the first
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BRUSSELS — Ten days into the most significant Middle Eastern conflict since 2003, Europe has managed to issue statements, dispatch warships, and
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Assembly of Experts on Saturday named Mojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son of assassinated Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, as the
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RIYADH — Ukraine’s low-cost interceptor drones, battle-tested against more than a thousand Iranian-made Shahed kamikaze drones over Ukrainian skies, have emerged as
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DHAHRAN — Iran sent sixteen drones in four waves at Saudi Arabia’s Shaybah oil field on March 7, 2026, and Saudi air
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is preparing to deploy a third aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East as the war between
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RIYADH — The United States-Gulf security alliance — the bedrock of Middle Eastern stability for more than three decades — fractured during
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has positioned itself as the indispensable mediator in at least four active international conflicts over the past eighteen
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DOHA — Qatar shot down two Iranian Su-24 tactical bombers on 2 March 2026, marking the first aerial combat kill in the
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RIYADH — While Iranian ballistic missiles streak across Gulf skies and drone wreckage smolders on Saudi soil, a parallel war is unfolding
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RIYADH — Iran has fired more than 1,200 missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia and its Gulf neighbours in the seven days
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BAGHDAD — Iraq is disintegrating under the pressure of a war it did not start, cannot stop, and may not survive. Since
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MANAMA — The Strait of Hormuz has seen war before. Between 1981 and 1988, Iraqi jets and Iranian gunboats attacked 411 commercial
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia maintains the fifth-largest defense budget on earth and the most expensive military apparatus in the Arab world, yet
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MECCA — Saudi Arabia faces the most complex security challenge in modern Hajj history as it prepares to receive an estimated 1.8
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has intensified its direct diplomatic backchannel to Iran in a high-stakes bid to de-escalate the most dangerous military
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ADEN — The most consequential military decision in the Middle East right now is not being made in Washington, Tehran, or Jerusalem.
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RIYADH — Russia and China have condemned the US-Israeli strikes on Iran in the strongest possible terms, called for an immediate ceasefire,
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RIYADH — Prince Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is Saudi Arabia’s minister of defense, the younger brother of Crown Prince
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WASHINGTON — Five days into Operation Epic Fury, the United States military had conducted approximately 2,000 strikes across 24 of Iran’s 31
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RIYADH — The Iran war has placed Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 economic transformation under the most severe stress test in the programme’s
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco is emergency-activating the East-West Pipeline to reroute crude oil exports from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea
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RIYADH — The Gulf Cooperation Council stands at the most consequential crossroads in its 45-year history. Iran’s simultaneous attack on all six
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Half a million barrels per day of refining capacity went dark on Monday morning. Saudi Aramco confirmed that its Ras Tanura refinery,
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