KUWAIT CITY — Iranian drones struck Kuwait’s Mina Al-Ahmadi oil refinery for the second consecutive day on Friday, March 21, igniting fires
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RIYADH — The Iran war will most likely end not with a grand diplomatic ceremony or a decisive military victory but with
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WASHINGTON — The United States has deployed A-10 Thunderbolt II ground-attack aircraft and AH-64 Apache helicopters to hunt Iranian fast-attack boats in
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RIYADH — Three weeks into the most destructive military confrontation in the Persian Gulf since 1991, Saudi Arabia finds itself defended by
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WASHINGTON — Iran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at the joint US-UK military base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean on
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WASHINGTON — Three weeks into a war that has killed more than 1,400 Iranians, shut the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic,
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States is considering “winding down” military operations against Iran, claiming that
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WASHINGTON — The United States Treasury Department on March 20, 2026, issued a 30-day sanctions waiver permitting the sale of approximately 140
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YANBU — A Greek-operated Patriot air defense battery stationed at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea port of Yanbu intercepted two Iranian ballistic missiles
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Trump’s subsequent 48-hour ultimatum to destroy Iran’s power grid has only deepened this dynamic, creating a conventional Mutually Assured Destruction standoff where
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has asked the White House to approve a supplemental budget request to Congress exceeding $200 billion to fund
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DOHA — The conventional wisdom about this war’s energy toll is wrong. Analysts, traders, and governments have fixated on the Strait of
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Civil Defense authority pushed an emergency alert to millions of mobile phones across Riyadh on Wednesday evening, warning
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RIYADH — While Iranian missiles and drones dominate the headlines, a parallel conflict is unfolding across the Gulf’s digital infrastructure that may
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to “massively blow up the entirety” of Iran’s South Pars gas field — the
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister stood at a podium in the early hours of Thursday and said something no Saudi official
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DOHA — Qatar ordered Iran’s military and security attachés to leave the country within 24 hours on Wednesday after an Iranian missile
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DHAHRAN — Iran’s March 18 strikes against Ras Laffan, Habshan, and Saudi Arabia’s Jubail Petrochemical Complex marked a threshold that no ceasefire
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RIYADH — Iran warned on Wednesday that it would strike Saudi Arabia’s Samref refinery in Yanbu and the Jubail Petrochemical Complex in
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RIYADH — Human Rights Watch on Monday published its most detailed investigation into civilian casualties from Iranian drone and missile attacks across
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia convened an emergency ministerial meeting of foreign ministers from Arab and Islamic nations in Riyadh on Wednesday evening,
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RIYADH — Goldman Sachs has warned that Gulf Arab economies face their sharpest downturn in a generation as the Iran war grinds
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CAIRO — Egypt commands the largest military in the Arab world — 438,500 active troops, 218 F-16 fighters, 54 Dassault Rafale jets,
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DUBAI — Gulf Arab states that spent years rebuilding diplomatic ties with Tehran are now pressing the United States to ensure Iran
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MOSCOW — Russia did not fire a single missile at Iran. It did not deploy a warship to the Persian Gulf. It
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