ISLAMABAD — Fourteen hours of direct talks between US Vice President JD Vance and Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf ended early
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ABU DHABI — The UAE has formally demanded that Iran pay reparations for 2,819 missiles and drones fired at Gulf states over
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RIYADH — Benjamin Netanyahu has given himself a public veto over the ceasefire that Saudi Arabia cannot survive without — and Riyadh
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DHAHRAN — Pakistani fighter jets landed at King Abdulaziz Air Base on Friday, parking combat aircraft seven kilometres from Saudi Aramco’s global
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DHAHRAN — The Strait of Hormuz now has two operating systems running simultaneously, and they are designed to destroy each other. On
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ISLAMABAD — Iran gave the United States 30 minutes to turn its destroyers around — and delivered the ultimatum not over a
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WASHINGTON — Two United States Navy guided-missile destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz on April 11, 2026, crossing east-to-west into the Persian
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DHAHRAN — The oil market has split in two, and Saudi Arabia is trapped in the gap. Dated Brent — the price
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ISLAMABAD — Iran sent two messages to Islamabad on April 11 and they contradict each other. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, speaking not
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ISLAMABAD — Both sides have said the word “never” about uranium enrichment, and both of them meant it. Donald Trump declared “there
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco has notified at least two Asian term-contract buyers that April liftings will be restricted to Arab Light crude
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TEHRAN — Iran’s elected president stood in a closed-door meeting on April 4 and accused his own military commanders by name of
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ISLAMABAD — On the same day JD Vance departed Washington for Islamabad to negotiate a ceasefire Pakistan is hosting, two Pakistani Air
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MATCH FOUND DHAHRAN — Brent crude has fallen roughly 10 percent from its pre-ceasefire peak of $120 per barrel to trade near
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DUBAI — A Gabon-flagged tanker carrying 7,000 tonnes of Emirati fuel oil became the first confirmed non-Iranian commercial vessel to transit the
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ISLAMABAD — Iran did not bring one proposal to the Islamabad talks. It brought at least three, and the versions contradict each
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JEDDAH — Keir Starmer stood on Saudi soil on April 9 and said what Saudi Arabia cannot say: Israeli strikes in Lebanon
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RIYADH — President Donald Trump threatened Iran with “lethal prosecution and destruction” on Truth Social late Wednesday while his vice president was
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ABU DHABI — ADNOC chief executive Sultan Al Jaber declared on April 9 that 230 loaded oil tankers are sitting outside the
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WASHINGTON — The United States asked NATO allies this week to deliver written plans for securing the Strait of Hormuz “within days,”
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JEDDAH — Britain has deployed its most advanced ground-based air defence system to Saudi Arabia, and it cannot intercept a single one
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DHAHRAN — Iran physically blocked Chinese Cosco-linked tankers from transiting the Strait of Hormuz on April 9, less than 48 hours after
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ISLAMABAD — Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the man Iran has designated to lead its delegation at the Islamabad peace talks on April 10,
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