MUSCAT — Four days before Donald Trump lands in Riyadh to sign a civil nuclear energy deal that does not expressly forbid
MoreTEHRAN — When Mohammad Mokhber, identified across Mehr News Agency’s May 8 broadcast as an adviser to Supreme Leader Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei,
MoreCHANGED {“content”: “ RIYADH u2014 Saudi Arabia stopped Project Freedom on May 5, killed it inside thirty-six hours, and watched on May
MoreCHANGED: True {“content”: “ WASHINGTON u2014 Operation Epic Fury struck Iran’s enrichment facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and the Isfahan metallurgy complex beginning
MoreRIYADH — Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself carrying an assault rifle at 4 AM on April 29, captioned “NO
MoreContents What Does Qatar Mean by “Frozen Conflict”? The Decisiveness Summit That Decided Nothing Why Can Qatar Survive a Frozen Hormuz and
MoreKUWAIT CITY — Two fiber-optic wire-guided explosive drones launched from Iraqi territory struck two of Kuwait’s northern land border posts on April
MoreRIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 turned ten on April 25 with a report card that would satisfy any boardroom — 93%
MoreWASHINGTON — The War Powers Resolution clock expires on May 1 — five days from now — and the man with the
MoreTEHRAN — Iran’s Deputy Parliament Speaker Hamidreza Hajibabaei announced on April 23 that the first revenues collected under the Strait of Hormuz
MoreKharg Island, 25 kilometres off Iran’s southwestern coast, handles more than 90% of the country’s crude exports. The long jetties visible at
MoreJEDDAH — Ukraine has quietly become a structural participant in the Gulf’s air defense architecture. The “Drone Agreement” signed April 24-25 between
MoreISLAMABAD — Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi landed at Nur Khan airbase late Friday carrying what Pakistani officials described as a written
MoreDUBAI — Iran laid fresh mines in the Strait of Hormuz during the week of April 21–23, while the ceasefire extension it
MoreTable of Contents Iran’s Formal Refusal Is the Channel “On Hold” or Dead? From Venue to Enforcer — and Back Again Why
MoreJEDDAH — The ceasefire expired at midnight, the first Indonesian pilgrims boarded their Hajj flights from Jakarta, and the IRGC seized two
MoreJEDDAH — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hosted Sudan’s military leader Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in Jeddah on Monday, a
MoreRIYADH — The war gave Mohammed bin Salman something no consultant or quarterly earnings call ever could: a reason to say out
MoreLONDON — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired on the French-flagged container ship CMA CGM Everglade in the Strait of Hormuz on
MoreJEDDAH — Pakistan’s 119,000 Hajj pilgrims are now inside Saudi Arabia’s wartime Makkah cordon, and their physical presence has done what no
MoreDUBAI — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired on at least two vessels that had received prior IRGC clearance to transit the
MoreA B-2 Spirit stealth bomber departs Diego Garcia — the Indian Ocean staging base used for the June 2025 strikes on Fordow,
MoreMUSCAT — Two IRGC gunboats fired on a commercial tanker 20 nautical miles northeast of Oman on Friday morning without issuing a
MoreWASHINGTON — At 12:01 a.m. EDT on April 19, the most permissive sanctions waiver ever issued for Iranian crude oil ceases to
MoreChanged: True WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia’s Fund for Development signed a $3 billion deposit rollover with the State Bank of Pakistan on
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