DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia officially quantified its war damage for the first time on Wednesday, disclosing through state news agency SPA that
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ISLAMABAD — Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, accused the United States of three violations of the April 7 ceasefire agreement within
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$CO That structural impossibility produced its clearest result on April 18, when Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister cancelled the April 20 Islamabad round
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia asked for the Strait of Hormuz to be opened, and Iran obliged — by installing a tollbooth. The
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TEHRAN — Explosions struck Iran’s Lavan Island oil refinery and Sirri Island crude export facilities at approximately 06:30 GMT on April 8,
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RIYADH — For 35 days, Mohammed bin Salman lobbied Donald Trump to destroy Iran’s military capacity, urged him to send ground troops
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UNITED NATIONS — Russia and China vetoed the United Nations Security Council resolution on the Strait of Hormuz on April 7, killing
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“ DHAHRAN u2014 Iranian ballistic missile debris struck SABIC’s petrochemical complex at Jubail Industrial City on April 7, igniting a fire at
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TEHRAN — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is tonight the sole functioning command authority in Iran, operating without civilian oversight or constitutional
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Trump Says Iran Can Be “Taken Out in One Night” — the 155-Aircraft Math That Tells a Different Story
WASHINGTON — It took 155 aircraft — four bombers, 64 fighters, 48 aerial refueling tankers, 13 rescue planes, and 26 intelligence and
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RIYADH — Iran’s state media declared on April 6 that its forces had destroyed 12 US aircraft since April 3 — a
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DOHA — Two laden Qatar LNG tankers, the Al Daayen and the Rasheeda, are pushing toward the Hormuz exit right now —
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DHAHRAN — The United States is bombing Iranian military infrastructure with B-2s while licensing the sale of Iranian crude whose revenues fund
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Table of Contents The Back-Channel: What MBS Asked For Did Saudi Arabia Deny It? The Public Posture: Ceasefire Calls and Diplomatic Choreography
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia is pumping 7 million barrels per day through the East-West Pipeline to Yanbu, bypassing the closed Strait of
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RIYADH — Saudi air defenses intercepted seven Iranian ballistic missiles and ten attack drones over the Riyadh region on the morning of
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DUBAI — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed on April 2 that it struck “the data center and computing infrastructure of the
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ATHENS — On March 17, 2026, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stood at a Bloomberg event in Athens and told the audience,
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia spent decades building the most stringent alcohol prohibition in the Gulf. It spent three years quietly dismantling it.
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JEDDAH — Giorgia Meloni became the first EU leader to visit Saudi Arabia since the Iran war began on February 28, flying
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Al-Jubail industrial city on Saudi Arabia’s Gulf coast, photographed at night from the International Space Station by NASA Expedition 31 crew. The
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WASHINGTON — On January 13, 2026, President Donald Trump signed Presidential Determination No. 2026-03 designating the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia a Major
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KUWAIT CITY — Iranian drones struck Kuwait’s Mina al-Ahmadi oil refinery and a separate power generation and water desalination plant in coordinated
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DOHA — On Tuesday, the IRGC designated 18 American companies as “legitimate military targets,” gave employees until 8pm Tehran time on Wednesday
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia and Ukraine signed a 10-year defense cooperation pact on March 27 before President Zelensky had even sat down
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