TEHRAN — A projectile struck the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant compound for the fourth time on Friday, killing one security team member
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Table of Contents The Call That Wasn’t About Peace Why Is Russia Mediating a War It Helped Arm? Saudi Arabia’s Fourth Track:
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has absorbed 92 waves of Iranian missiles and drones since February 28, granted the United States offensive basing
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WASHINGTON — An American A-10 Thunderbolt II was struck by Iranian fire on April 3 while flying a combat search-and-rescue escort mission
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RIYADH — When OPEC+ ministers convene on April 5, Saudi Arabia will sit at the table as three countries at once —
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia arrives at Saturday’s OPEC+ meeting holding a weapon it cannot fire: 3 million barrels per day of spare
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JEDDAH — Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar called Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Friday to formally brief him on a
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DUBAI — On April 3, 2026, France co-vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have authorised military force to reopen
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DHAHRAN — Iran struck the UAE’s largest gas processing facility and a Kuwaiti oil refinery within hours of each other on April
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US F-15E Strike Eagle Shot Down Over Iran — First American Jet Lost to Enemy Fire in 35 Days of Operation Epic
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LONDON — Two NATO member states are now operating sovereign air defense batteries inside Saudi Arabia under live Iranian missile fire, without
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JEDDAH — A Ukrainian interceptor drone costs between $1,000 and $2,500. A Patriot PAC-3 MSE missile costs $13.5 million. On March 27,
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DHAHRAN — Brent futures fell $44 a barrel on April 3 alone, collapsing from a prior-session close near $109 to a settlement
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WASHINGTON — A classified US intelligence assessment obtained by CNN reveals that roughly half of Iran’s ballistic missile launchers remain intact after
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LONDON — Forty-one nations convened on April 2 to discuss reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and the country that has policed it
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Table of Contents Fewer Missiles, More Hits What Changed After March 10? The Ras Tanura Problem Can the East-West Pipeline Take the
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told America’s allies to “build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT”
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JEDDAH — Iran announced on Wednesday that it is finalizing a joint protocol with Oman to “monitor and coordinate” all tanker traffic
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RIYADH — Saudi air defenses intercepted one ballistic missile and ten drones over Al-Kharj on April 2, 2026, but the debris from
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TEHRAN — On the night of April 1, an airstrike hit the home of Kamal Kharazi, the 81-year-old former Iranian foreign minister
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TEHRAN — An IRGC “military council” of senior officers has seized de facto control of Iran’s government, cutting President Masoud Pezeshkian off
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ABU DHABI — Iran is not trying to overwhelm Saudi Arabia, the UAE, or Kuwait individually — it is trying to drain
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ISLAMABAD — Iran’s foreign minister went on Al Jazeera on April 1 and told the world his country is ready to fight
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VIENNA — The world’s strategic petroleum reserves — the last emergency buffer between a managed oil crisis and an unmanaged one —
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WASHINGTON — The 82nd Airborne Division is loading onto C-17s with orders to seize Iran’s oil infrastructure by force. Thirteen thousand paratroopers
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