JEDDAH — Houthi military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree declared “a complete and total ban on Israeli maritime navigation” in the Red
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia posted a $34 billion deficit in Q1 2026 — the largest quarterly budget shortfall in the kingdom’s history
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RIYADH — Iran executed Operation True Promise 5 on Day 100 of this war, firing at least ten ballistic missiles at Ramat
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BEIRUT — Israeli warplanes struck Hezbollah command infrastructure in Beirut’s Dahiyeh district on June 7, 2026, killing at least two people and
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi landed in Tehran on Saturday evening — his third trip to the Iranian capital in
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WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent directed his department on June 6, 2026, to use “all available authorities” to redirect frozen Iranian
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia entered its hundredth day of war having consumed three-quarters of its annual deficit allowance in a single quarter,
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ST. PETERSBURG — Saudi Arabia’s energy minister stood on a stage in St. Petersburg this week as Vladimir Putin’s guest of honor,
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WASHINGTON — President Trump told NBC on Thursday that Iran retains “21–22 percent” of its pre-war missiles, describing a military that has
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BEIRUT — Lebanon’s president told Iran on live television that it is using his country as a bargaining chip in nuclear negotiations
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RIYADH — The State Department cleared $8.6 billion in emergency arms sales to four Middle Eastern partners on May 3, handing Qatar
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RIYADH — The US Army’s FY2027 budget request for 2,798 PAC-3 MSE interceptors is a $12.2 billion claim on the only factory
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WASHINGTON — Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah met Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the State Department on June
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WASHINGTON — Trump told his cabinet on June 4 that an Iran deal could come “this weekend.” The pipeline through which that
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BEIRUT — The Lebanon ceasefire formalized on June 4 between the United States, Israel, and Lebanon was built to remove the obstacle
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KUWAIT CITY — Iranian Fateh-110 ballistic missiles targeted Camp Arifjan on Tuesday morning — the US Army Central forward headquarters in Kuwait
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KUWAIT CITY — Iranian drones struck Terminal 1 at Kuwait International Airport on Tuesday morning — forty-eight hours after the building reopened
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RIYADH — Seven oil ministers will convene virtually on June 7 to approve a production increase that none of them can physically
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WASHINGTON — Marco Rubio told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Monday that Mojtaba Khamenei is “increasingly engaging” through written intermediaries and,
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DUBAI — The IRGC Navy fired two Noor cruise missiles at the MSC Sariska V, a Panama-flagged container ship departing Iraq’s Umm
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DHAHRAN — When UAE Energy Minister Suhail Al Mazrouei told CNBC on April 28 that “our exit at this time is the
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RIYADH — On June 1, Donald Trump told ABC News a deal with Iran could happen “over the next week,” and on
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TEHRAN — Iran’s president may not have resigned, but the institution he nominally leads has already been emptied of the authority that
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WASHINGTON — Iran suspended all mediator-channel negotiations with the United States, fired two ballistic missiles at an American air base in Kuwait,
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TEHRAN — Iran suspended all US-mediated MOU negotiations on June 1 and declared through its IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency that the resistance
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