BEIJING — On Sunday evening, Donald Trump told CBS News the April 8 ceasefire had “approximately a 1% chance of living” —
MoreRIYADH — For seventy-two hours between May 5 and May 8, Saudi Arabia did something it has not done since the Iraq
MoreNEW DELHI — Iran’s foreign minister reversed his decision to skip the BRICS Foreign Ministers Meeting in New Delhi, confirming on May
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More{“content”: “ MUSCAT u2014 Three men can kill any Iran deal Donald Trump signs, and none of them work for him. The
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MoreTEHRAN — Iran formally submitted its response to the US peace proposal via Pakistani mediators on May 10, 2026, while three separate
MoreRIYADH — The GCC spent 45 years as a security club where every member needed protection and none could provide it —
MoreWASHINGTON — On the same morning Marco Rubio’s deadline for Iran’s response to the 14-point MOU expired, the National Council of Resistance
MoreMANAMA — Iran did not threaten to close the Strait of Hormuz on Friday. It threatened something more useful: to keep the
MoreDUBAI — A 71-square-kilometre oil slick first detected by Copernicus Sentinel satellites on May 6 west of Iran’s Kharg Island terminal continued
More{“content”: “ RIYADH u2014 Four days before Donald Trump lands in the Saudi capital with a $142 billion arms deal in his
MoreRIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s war with Iran has accomplished what a decade of Vision 2030 presentations could not: it has made the
More{“content”: “ nnnn n TEHRAN u2014 Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps published new maritime control rules for the Strait of Hormuz and
MoreDHAHRAN — Aramco is about to report its strongest quarter in a year — a $29 billion profit that looks like vindication
MoreRIYADH — Saudi Arabia will spend seventy-two hours hosting the most consequential diplomatic sequence of the Iran war — and will not
More{“content”: “ TEHRAN u2014 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian called IRGC strikes on the UAE “madness” on May 4, requested an urgent meeting
MoreJEDDAH — Saudi Arabia has approximately 400 PAC-3 MSE interceptors remaining — 14% of its pre-war stockpile — and no new rounds
MoreRIYADH — Hours after US Navy destroyers traded fire with Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz — strikes Donald Trump dismissed
MoreCHANGED {“content”: “ DUBAI u2014 Gen. Dan Caine, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told NBC News this week that
MoreTEHRAN — Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority, activated on May 5, does not administer a toll — it administers a 40-question intelligence-collection
MoreTEHRAN — Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf branded a US-drafted memorandum of understanding as “Operation Fauxios” on May 7, publicly mocking
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