RIYADH — At 5:20 a.m. on July 3, Saudi warplanes attempted to prevent an Iranian civilian aircraft carrying more than two hundred
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TEHRAN — Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, will not attend the funeral of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after Iranian security services
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has paid $867 million to Hanwha Systems for radars that see ballistic missiles at 20,000 metres, and another
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DOHA — The second Doha round of indirect US-Iran talks closed on July 2 with two procedural deliverables — a goods-purchase mechanism
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has not confirmed any representative for the foreign dignitary ceremony honouring the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in
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RIYADH — The Wall Street Journal reported this week that President Trump has privately told senior staff — including Defense Secretary Pete
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TEHRAN — On July 1, the Doha talks confirmed working groups, a shuttle format, and a dispute over $3 billion in frozen
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco has sold at least six million barrels of crude on the spot market — a transaction Bloomberg described
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TEHRAN — Masoud Pezeshkian flew to Qom on June 28 to meet the grand ayatollahs whose authority predates the republic. By June
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TEHRAN — Sixty-two of Iran’s eighty-eight Assembly of Experts members — the constitutional body that installed Mojtaba Khamenei as Supreme Leader in
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DHAHRAN — Aramco’s July Official Selling Price to Asia collapsed by $6 per barrel to a $9.50 premium over the Oman/Dubai benchmark
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Table of Contents What Happens When P&I Clubs Withdraw War Risk Cover? How Did the London Market Close the Strait Before Iran
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia just approved a production quota increase it cannot physically deliver — Hormuz remains closed, actual output sits at
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DUBAI — Emmanuel Macron stood beside Sultan Haitham bin Tarik on June 29 and announced a multinational mine-clearance mission for the Strait
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DOHA — US envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Doha on Tuesday to open what President Trump announced as high-level talks with Iran,
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NEOM — PIF’s 2026-2030 strategy, approved by MBS on April 15, reclassifies NEOM as an “independent ecosystem” — a standalone pillar quarantined
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DOHA — Donald Trump announced on Truth Social on Monday that Iran had “requested a meeting” in Doha for Tuesday, June 30;
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia posted a $33.5 billion deficit in the first quarter of 2026, burning through 76% of its full-year $44
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DOHA — The United States and Iran spent twelve hours on June 28 trading missile strikes, each invoking the Islamabad Understanding to
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Table of Contents What Can Geneva’s Nuclear Track Actually Resolve? Why Are the US and Iran Contradicting Each Other on Inspections? How
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KUWAIT CITY — Iran struck Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait and the US Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain between 02:00
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MANAMA — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan signed the Gulf Cooperation Council’s strongest collective defense commitment in 45 years on
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RIYADH — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stood in Baghdad on June 28 and proposed a regional security framework — six GCC
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DOHA — Vice President JD Vance told UnHerd on June 26 that Iran had agreed to station IRGC officers alongside CENTCOM personnel
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MANAMA — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it destroyed eight American military installations at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait
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