That truce termination was confirmed the same day when Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation closed all four southern civilian airports
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DHAHRAN — Donald Trump declared the United States the “Guardian of the Strait of Hormuz” on July 13 and announced a 20
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ABU DHABI — The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned Iran on July 12 for “renewed hostile missile and drone attacks” targeting
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MUSCAT — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck the Port of Duqm and Musandam Governorate in Oman on July 12, less than
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, and Jordan issued a joint condemnation of Iranian attacks on tankers in the Strait of
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TEHRAN — Mojtaba Khamenei released a written revenge declaration on July 11, pledging to avenge his father’s death — his seventh statement
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RIYADH — Fitch affirmed Saudi Arabia’s sovereign credit rating at A+ with a Stable Outlook on July 11 and, in the same
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia restored all three diplomatic channels with Washington in under twenty-four hours — ambassador, foreign minister, and crown prince
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RIYADH — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called President Donald Trump on Saturday, upgrading the US-Saudi diplomatic channel from ambassador level
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JEDDAH — When Mohammed bin Salman picked up the phone to Donald Trump on the morning of July 11, 2026 — the
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DHAHRAN — Trump threatened to seize Kharg Island at the NATO summit in Ankara on July 8. The island sits twenty miles
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ABU DHABI — Since February 28, 2026, the United Arab Emirates has absorbed 2,819 discrete Iranian strikes — 537 ballistic missiles intercepted,
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RIYADH — The International Monetary Fund cut Saudi Arabia’s 2026 real GDP growth forecast to 1.7 percent on July 8 — the
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WASHINGTON — Princess Reema bint Bandar met Secretary Rubio on July 10, 2026, and the readout said everything diplomats say when the
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A crude oil tanker underway in open water, 2026. The Wedyan — a 319,990-deadweight-ton VLCC owned by Saudi Arabia’s state-controlled Bahri —
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WASHINGTON — The United States withheld deliveries of PAC-3 and THAAD interceptors from Saudi Arabia in May 2026, using the kingdom’s depleted
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KUWAIT CITY — Iran’s regular army — the Artesh, not the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — announced on July 9 that it
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RIYADH — Mohammed bin Salman privately urged Donald Trump to send American ground forces into Iran to seize the country’s energy infrastructure
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AMMAN — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired ten ballistic missiles at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in eastern Jordan on July 9,
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MANAMA — IRGC missiles and drones struck four American military bases across Kuwait and Bahrain on July 8 — the first external
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ANKARA — NATO’s Ankara summit placed Hormuz in the Alliance’s communiqué for the first time this week, calling on Iran to “fully
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WASHINGTON — The dual IRGC strikes on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on July 7 present the Trump administration with
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