WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on April 23 ordered the US Navy to “shoot and kill” any vessel laying mines in the
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WASHINGTON — On April 16, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood at the Pentagon podium and said out loud what classified intelligence assessments
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JEDDAH — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the IDF to strike Hezbollah “with force” on April 25, 2026, just 48 hours
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WASHINGTON — Three US aircraft carriers are now operating in the Middle East for the first time since the 2003 invasion of
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ISLAMABAD — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi flew into Pakistan’s capital on Saturday, April 24, spent roughly two hours with Prime Minister
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ISLAMABAD — Donald Trump cancelled the planned Witkoff-Kushner trip to Pakistan on Friday, killing the second round of Iran negotiations roughly one
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ISLAMABAD — Abbas Araghchi flew to Islamabad, met the Pakistani prime minister, handed over a written document, and left before the American
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JEDDAH — The same day an Iranian-made Shahed drone destroyed a $500 million E-3G AWACS at Prince Sultan Air Base — March
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ISLAMABAD — Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi landed at Nur Khan air base in Rawalpindi late Thursday night, was greeted personally by
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s refusal to fire a single shot at Iran across nearly two months of war is not restraint born
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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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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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