RIYADH — Iran is not trying to beat Saudi Arabia’s air defenses. It is trying to empty them. On Monday morning, seven
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DUBAI — An Iranian drone struck the Kuwaiti supertanker Al Salmi just after midnight on Tuesday inside Dubai’s anchorage zone, setting fire
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RIYADH — Thirty-one days without reliable air travel has turned Saudi Arabia from the Middle East’s most connected economy into something approaching
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia spent a single weekend calling for peace, lobbying for war, and denying it had done either. On March
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AL KHARJ — Ground-level photographs and satellite imagery geolocated to Prince Sultan Air Base have confirmed the destruction of a U.S. Air
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KUWAIT CITY — An Iranian drone struck a service building at a Kuwaiti power and water desalination plant on Sunday, killing one
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JEDDAH — Ukraine and Saudi Arabia signed a defense cooperation memorandum of understanding on March 27, marking Kyiv’s first military agreement with
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The Shield Has a Timer and the Coalition Defending Saudi Arabia Knows It RIYADH — The multinational air defense coalition protecting Saudi
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DOHA — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Sunday declared all American and Israeli university campuses across the Gulf region “legitimate targets,”
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WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance declared on March 28 that the United States will continue fighting in Iran “a little while
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YANBU — Saudi Aramco’s East-West Pipeline reached its designed maximum throughput of 7 million barrels per day on Friday, Bloomberg reported, the
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan will host the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt for two days of talks beginning March 30,
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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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PARIS — G7 foreign ministers meeting at the Abbaye des Vaux-de-Cernay outside Paris on March 27 issued a joint statement condemning Iran’s
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RIYADH — Gulf Arab states led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have told the United States that any agreement
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RIYADH — Israel struck two of Iran’s nuclear facilities on Friday, hitting the Arak heavy water reactor complex and the Ardakan yellowcake
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco has shut down four of its largest offshore oil fields in the Persian Gulf, idling an estimated 2
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BEIJING — Four weeks into the most consequential Middle East conflict since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the conventional wisdom has settled
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{“content”: “ PARIS u2014 Group of Seven foreign ministers issued a joint statement on March 27 demanding an immediate end to attacks
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WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance confronted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a tense phone call earlier this week, accusing the
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior announced on Thursday that all visit, Umrah, transit, and final exit visas expired since February
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia is sitting on $2.5 trillion in untapped mineral reserves, and the state-owned mining giant Ma’aden has just announced
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JEDDAH — Ukraine and Saudi Arabia signed a defense cooperation agreement on Friday during a surprise visit by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Jordan issued a joint declaration on Wednesday invoking Article 51
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THE HAGUE — Twenty-eight days into the most consequential military confrontation since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, neither the United States nor
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