WASHINGTON — The United States admitted on Wednesday that its Navy cannot yet escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, ten
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MUSCAT — Two foreign workers were killed and several others injured on Friday when Iranian drones crashed into an industrial area in
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NEW DELHI — India is staring down its worst energy crisis since the 1973 oil embargo, and unlike that distant shock, this
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia intercepted 56 drones and two ballistic missiles on Friday as Iran launched its largest single-day aerial assault against
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JEDDAH — When Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif landed in Saudi Arabia on March 12 for an emergency meeting with Crown Prince
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ERBIL — A French soldier was killed and six others wounded on Thursday when an Iranian-made Shahed drone struck a coalition base
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DOHA — The Strait of Hormuz crisis has removed roughly twenty percent of the world’s liquefied natural gas supply from international markets,
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RIYADH — Saudi air defenses intercepted and destroyed 31 drones and three ballistic missiles on Wednesday in what the Ministry of Defense
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has absorbed more than two hundred Iranian drones and missiles since February 28 without firing a single offensive
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ANKARA — Sirens sounded at Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey early on Friday, waking residents of the nearby city of Adana
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RIYADH — Operation Maritime Shield, the G7-coordinated naval escort initiative announced on March 10, will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz in
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia on Wednesday launched emergency logistics corridors to redirect container shipping and commercial cargo from the war-disrupted Persian Gulf
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PARIS — The International Energy Agency confirmed on Wednesday what oil traders, shipping executives, and Gulf energy ministers have feared since Iranian
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has spent more than $80 billion on air defense systems over the past decade, assembling one of the
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BEIRUT — Hezbollah fired approximately 200 rockets and 20 drones at northern Israel on Wednesday evening in what the Israeli military described
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ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates absorbed more Iranian ordnance in the first week of the 2026 Iran war than any
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RIYADH — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned on Wednesday that it would destroy oil and gas infrastructure across the Gulf if
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RIYADH — A ceasefire in the Iran war will not end Saudi Arabia’s crisis. The missiles will stop, the air raid sirens
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BASRA — Iraq suspended operations at its southern oil export terminals on Thursday after Iranian drone boats struck two foreign tankers in
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MANAMA — Iranian missiles struck a fuel storage facility on Bahrain’s Muharraq Island early on Thursday, igniting a fire that sent thick
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Thirteen days into the US-Israeli war on Iran, the conflict is reshaping the Middle East faster than diplomats can respond. Commercial shipping
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WASHINGTON — A preliminary Pentagon investigation has concluded that a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in
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DUBAI — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired on three commercial cargo ships in and near the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday,
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, the $1.15 trillion sovereign wealth vehicle at the centre of Mohammed bin Salman’s economic transformation,
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NEW YORK — The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday adopted a landmark resolution condemning Iran’s missile and drone attacks on seven
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