RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s decision to open King Fahd Air Base in Taif to American offensive strike operations has done what thirty-eight
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates activated air defenses simultaneously against Iranian missile and drone barrages on April
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DUBAI — The Qatari LNG tanker Al Daayen was at 26.10°N / 55.77°E inside the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday morning, moving
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MUSCAT — US and Iranian mediators are circulating a two-phase, 45-day ceasefire framework — the first structured proposal since Steve Witkoff’s direct-talks
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MUSCAT — Oman and Iran held deputy foreign minister-level talks in Muscat on Saturday to draft the terms of a new Hormuz
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Pakistan Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar (left, facing camera) chairs a formal bilateral delegation meeting in 2025 —
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TEHRAN — Iran is not blockading the Strait of Hormuz. It is franchising it. The announcement on April 4 that “brotherly Iraq”
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ABU DHABI — UAE air defenses intercepted every incoming Iranian missile over the Ruwais Industrial Complex at 6:44 AM on Saturday, April
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KUWAIT CITY — Iranian drones struck the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation headquarters in the Shuwaikh Oil Sector Complex early on Saturday, April 5
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RIYADH — Iran has blown up the only diplomatic exit that Saudi Arabia actually controlled. Islamabad’s mediation channel — assembled by Riyadh
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia will host between 750,000 and two million Muslim pilgrims for Hajj 2026 while Iranian ballistic missiles and drones
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MANAMA — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck the MSC Ishyka, a Liberian-flagged container ship, with a drone on April 4, claiming
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RIYADH — Iran does not need to hit Saudi Arabia to hurt it. Thirty-five days into the war, Tehran has discovered that
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DHAHRAN — A projectile struck 350 metres from the Bushehr reactor on Friday, close enough to kill a security guard but not
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TEHRAN — A projectile struck the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant compound for the fourth time on Friday, killing one security team member
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Table of Contents The Call That Wasn’t About Peace Why Is Russia Mediating a War It Helped Arm? Saudi Arabia’s Fourth Track:
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has absorbed 92 waves of Iranian missiles and drones since February 28, granted the United States offensive basing
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WASHINGTON — An American A-10 Thunderbolt II was struck by Iranian fire on April 3 while flying a combat search-and-rescue escort mission
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RIYADH — When OPEC+ ministers convene on April 5, Saudi Arabia will sit at the table as three countries at once —
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia arrives at Saturday’s OPEC+ meeting holding a weapon it cannot fire: 3 million barrels per day of spare
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JEDDAH — Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar called Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Friday to formally brief him on a
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DUBAI — On April 3, 2026, France co-vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have authorised military force to reopen
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DHAHRAN — Iran struck the UAE’s largest gas processing facility and a Kuwaiti oil refinery within hours of each other on April
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US F-15E Strike Eagle Shot Down Over Iran — First American Jet Lost to Enemy Fire in 35 Days of Operation Epic
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LONDON — Two NATO member states are now operating sovereign air defense batteries inside Saudi Arabia under live Iranian missile fire, without
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