MANAMA — Bahrain’s armed forces have now intercepted 143 missiles and 242 drones fired by Iran since the war began on February
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RIYADH — Iran’s top military spokesperson warned on Friday that “parks, recreational areas and tourist destinations” worldwide would no longer be safe
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia expelled five Iranian diplomats on March 21, 2026, declaring the Islamic Republic’s military attaché and four embassy staff
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BAGHDAD — Iraq declared force majeure on all foreign-operated oil fields on Thursday, formally suspending contractual obligations with some of the world’s
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan signed a Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement with Saudi Arabia six months ago pledging that an attack on one would
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has agreed to open King Fahd Air Base in Taif to American military forces for operations against Iran,
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RIYADH — Three weeks into the 2026 Iran war, at least twelve nations and international actors have offered to broker a ceasefire
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WASHINGTON — The head of United States Central Command said Saturday that Iran’s ability to threaten the Strait of Hormuz has been
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BRUSSELS — Three European nations have soldiers, warplanes, and missile batteries in the Gulf. A French warrant officer is dead. A Greek
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TOKYO — Iran announced on Friday that it is prepared to allow Japanese ships to transit the Strait of Hormuz, offering Tokyo
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BEIJING — Three years ago, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi stood between the top diplomats of Saudi Arabia and Iran as they
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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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