RIYADH — Twenty-six days of war between the United States, Israel, and Iran have triggered the sharpest surge in global defense spending
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RIYADH — Iran on Wednesday rejected President Donald Trump’s 15-point ceasefire proposal and issued a five-point counterproposal that demands international recognition of
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has spent more than $300 billion on defense over the past five years, ranking seventh globally and first
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RIYADH — Human Rights Watch accused Iran of committing war crimes in the Strait of Hormuz after documenting deliberate attacks on at
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NEW YORK — Bahrain has circulated a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council that would authorize member states to use
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ANKARA — Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan completed a three-day shuttle through Riyadh, Doha, and Abu Dhabi this week with a single
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RIYADH — Twenty-six days into the most destructive conflict the Middle East has witnessed since the Iran-Iraq War, the economic toll has
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KUWAIT CITY — An Iranian drone struck a fuel storage tank at Kuwait International Airport on Wednesday, igniting a fire that sent
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NEW DELHI — India has 9.5 days of strategic oil reserves. Its currency just hit a record low. Ninety per cent of
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RIYADH — Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman received French Minister of the Armed Forces and Veterans Catherine Vautrin in Riyadh
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RIYADH — Fifty-one years ago today, a nephew’s bullet ended the life of the king who turned petroleum into a geopolitical weapon.
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TEHRAN — Iran told the United Nations Security Council and the International Maritime Organization on Tuesday that “non-hostile” vessels may transit the
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RIYADH — Twenty-five days into the most sustained aerial bombardment any Gulf state has faced in modern history, Saudi Arabia has intercepted
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Monday ordered approximately 2,000 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division to deploy to the Middle East, marking
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MANAMA — The second tanker war in the Strait of Hormuz has already surpassed the first in every measurable dimension. Twenty-five days
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LONDON — Britain has agreed to lead a multinational naval coalition tasked with clearing Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz and
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund entered the Iran war with $1.15 trillion in assets, a pipeline of megaproject IPOs, and
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RIYADH — Iran’s Red Crescent Society reported on 24 March that more than 82,000 civilian structures have been damaged or destroyed since
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WASHINGTON — The United States has sent Iran a 15-point plan to end the 25-day war, according to the New York Times,
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DUBAI — Iran has begun charging commercial vessels up to $2 million per voyage to transit the Strait of Hormuz, Bloomberg reported
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TEHRAN — Iran on Tuesday appointed Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, a veteran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander who served as deputy commander in
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JEDDAH — The World Economic Forum on Monday postponed its Global Collaboration and Growth Meeting scheduled for April 22-23 in Jeddah, citing
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ISLAMABAD — Mediating countries led by Pakistan are pressing to convene the first face-to-face meeting between American and Iranian officials since the
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NEW YORK — Oil prices crashed by as much as 13 percent on Monday in the largest single-day decline since the Iran
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RIYADH — Somewhere in the vast inventory databases of the United States military, a number is shrinking that should terrify policymakers in
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