DHAHRAN — Physical crude oil hit $148.87 a barrel on April 13 while Brent futures traded at $97. That $47 gap is
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ISLAMABAD — Saudi Arabia transferred $3 billion to Pakistan in five days last week, preventing Islamabad from defaulting on $3.45 billion in
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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday rejected Iran’s Hormuz-for-blockade offer in language no diplomatic interlocutor recovers from quickly, telling
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DHAHRAN — OPEC+ voted on April 5 to raise its May production quota by 206,000 barrels per day — a figure that
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RIYADH — Three American aircraft carriers are now operating inside Central Command’s area of responsibility for the first time since the 2003
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia announced this month that government-wide local procurement has crossed 51 per cent, up from 28 per cent when
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WASHINGTON — Iranian strikes across eleven US military installations in seven countries have caused up to $5 billion in infrastructure damage —
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ST. PETERSBURG — Abbas Araghchi did not fly to Russia to brief Vladimir Putin. He flew to St. Petersburg on April 27
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JEDDAH — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hosted Sudan’s General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in Jeddah on April 21, three weeks after
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The Six-Country Sky Over Saudi Arabia: Ukraine’s Sky Map Lands at PSAB Six Weeks After Trump Said No
JEDDAH — Six weeks before a Ukrainian military team arrived at a Saudi air base to train American soldiers on how to
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LONDON — Donald Trump and Keir Starmer spoke by phone on April 26 and agreed on what Downing Street called “the urgent
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon told the House Armed Services Committee on April 22 that clearing Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz
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BANDAR ABBAS — An explosion ripped through the Sina Port container yard at Shahid Rajaei port at 12:20 local time on April
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NICOSIA — The GCC Secretary-General flew to Cyprus last week and, over an informal working lunch with Ursula von der Leyen and
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia is absorbing 83% of Iran’s missile and drone strikes, bleeding 3.15 million barrels per day in lost oil
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DHAHRAN — Goldman Sachs has given Saudi Arabia’s nightmare a name, and it sounds almost reassuring. Jared Cohen, co-head of the bank’s
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Saudi FM Prince Faisal bin Farhan signs a bilateral agreement with Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski in Warsaw, January 2026 — his
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BEIJING — Xi Jinping’s April 20 phone call with Mohammed bin Salman — in which the Chinese president called for “normal passage
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia published its Vision 2030 Annual Report on April 25, 2026 — the plan’s tenth anniversary — claiming 93%
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Table of Contents Two Missiles, One Tanker, and the Navy That Came Running What Was Andromeda Star Carrying and Who Owns It?
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RIYADH — Three ministerial meetings in thirty-eight days, Pakistani fighter jets landing at King Abdulaziz Air Base, and a collective security clause
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JEDDAH — Iran is reportedly designing the toll mechanism the Houthis intend to impose on Bab el-Mandeb, transferring the same fee architecture
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TEHRAN — Iran’s onshore oil storage reached functional capacity on or around April 26, triggering the forced shut-in of wells across the
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ABU DHABI — While Saudi Arabia was building a ceasefire, the UAE was bombing Iranian oil infrastructure — and Tehran’s formal UN
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RIYADH — The Gulf Cooperation Council was built to coordinate prosperity. It was never designed to fight a war — and 57
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