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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WASHINGTON — CENTCOM struck Iranian minelayer infrastructure on June 27 and 28, 2026, naming the targets explicitly in its post-strike communique and
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DOHA — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck four US military installations across the Persian Gulf on June 27 and cited the
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco loaded four Bahri supertankers at Ras Tanura on June 27 — the terminal’s first loading since March 8,
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Table of Contents What Did the Sakhir Declaration Promise Two Days Ago? The Dawn Strikes on Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan Why Did
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DOHA — JD Vance confirmed on June 26 that an IRGC officer and a CENTCOM counterpart are physically co-located in a deconfliction
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DHAHRAN — Iraq’s Oil Ministry threatened on June 25 to withdraw from OPEC if its quota demands are not met — a
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LONDON — Iran charged nothing for the first sixty days of Hormuz corridor transit, and eighteen of twenty vessels used the route
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TEHRAN — Iran published the operational rulebook for its Persian Gulf Strait Authority on June 19, and the most consequential feature in
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RIYADH — Four days after a $3.7 billion grace period expired with no payment, no disclosure, and no forbearance agreement, Dow Inc.’s
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Table of Contents What ‘Substantial’ Actually Says When You Read the Full Advisory Why Are P&I Clubs Answering a Different Question? The
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DHAHRAN — The IEA published its first 2027 oil balance projection on June 17, and the number that should preoccupy Riyadh more
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VIENNA — The framework that the Trump administration will formalize at Geneva on June 19 was already audited, three days before the
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WASHINGTON — Three days before JD Vance is scheduled to sign a nuclear memorandum of understanding in Geneva, President Donald Trump stood
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ÉVIAN — Six of the world’s leading military powers told the G7 summit on June 16 they would deploy a “strictly defensive
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The Strait of Hormuz as captured by NASA’s MODIS instrument in December 2020. The narrow passage between Iran (top) and the Musandam
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TEHRAN — Hours after Iran signed the Hormuz MOU on June 15, the IRGC Navy radioed a US destroyer conducting mine-clearance operations
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PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron convened a dedicated Arab-leaders session on the Strait of Hormuz at the G7 summit in Evian
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RIYADH — The US-Iran MOU did not resolve whether Iran can charge ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz; it codified the mechanism
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DHAHRAN — Sadara Chemical Company’s $3.7 billion guaranteed senior debt grace period expired on Monday morning, and not one of the three
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