Abdul Mohammed

MBS joined a seven-nation call urging Trump to accept. The terms include Iranian enrichment rights Riyadh does not possess, a Hormuz reopening

RIYADH — Asim Munir landed in Tehran on Friday evening to negotiate with the state his own defence treaty obliges him to

RIYADH — When Saudi Arabia restored US military access to Prince Sultan Air Base on May 7, 2026, after a four-day suspension

NEW YORK — Saudi Arabia has recruited 137 countries to demand that Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz. It needs two more

ABU DHABI — The consensus framing of the Saudi-UAE relationship in May 2026 treats the two countries as allies under strain —

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund raised $7 billion in May in its largest-ever single bond sale, drawing an orderbook of

ANTALYA — The International Institute for Strategic Studies, the London-based defence think tank, published a formal analysis in May 2026 identifying Turkey,

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund spent $5.3 billion building LIV Golf into the most expensive diplomatic instrument in sporting history,

RIYADH — The ceasefire Mohammed bin Salman spent fifty-two days building — which persuaded Donald Trump to cancel strikes on May 19,

RIYADH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan broke nine weeks of deliberate diplomatic ambiguity on Tuesday, issuing a public statement

MBS Has Forty-Eight Hours to Deliver Iran JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has spoken to his Iranian counterpart six times in

RIYADH — Mohammed bin Salman called Donald Trump on May 18 and stopped an American airstrike on Iran scheduled for the following

KUWAIT CITY — Six armed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps personnel landed on Bubiyan Island on May 1, slipping ashore from a rented

ABU DHABI — On May 18, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed called Donald Trump to demand the United States stand down from a

WASHINGTON — The National Security Council convened in the White House Situation Room on May 19 to review strike options against Iran

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump threatened to annihilate Iran on Saturday night and offered to lift oil sanctions on Sunday morning, and the

Trump and MBS at the White House on November 18, 2025 — the same diplomatic channel through which MBS transmitted the request

WASHINGTON — Trump’s National Security Council meets on Monday to hear CENTCOM commanders present operational plans to physically seize part of the