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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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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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday proposed that the United States and Iran could jointly control the Strait of Hormuz, the
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BUSHEHR — A projectile struck a structure three hundred and fifty metres from the only operating nuclear reactor on the Persian Gulf
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VIENNA — The heads of the International Atomic Energy Agency and Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom held an emergency phone call on
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RIYADH — Two ballistic missiles streaked toward the Saudi capital on March 23, 2026 — the same day Donald Trump announced “very
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HOUSTON — Saudi Aramco Chief Executive Amin Nasser has withdrawn from CERAWeek, the world’s premier energy conference, choosing to remain in Riyadh
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WASHINGTON — Iran’s parliament speaker declared on 22 March 2026 that every financial institution holding United States Treasury bonds is a legitimate
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RIYADH — The most dangerous moment for Saudi Arabia in the 24-day-old Iran war is not another barrage of ballistic missiles over
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Sunday ordered the Pentagon to postpone all military strikes against Iran’s power plants and energy infrastructure
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RIYADH — Twenty-four days into a war that has sent more than a thousand Iranian drones and four hundred ballistic missiles toward
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PARIS — The International Energy Agency declared on Sunday that more than 40 energy assets across nine countries in the Middle East
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco has notified Asian term customers that they will receive reduced crude oil volumes for April loadings, marking the
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