LONDON — Britain is sending warships, fighter jets, and intelligence assets to defend Saudi Arabia from Iranian missile and drone strikes, marking
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CAIRO — As Iranian ballistic missiles streak across Gulf skies and Saudi air defenses intercept drones over Riyadh, the largest Arab military
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s multi-layered air defense network has intercepted dozens of Iranian ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and attack drones since Tehran
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MANAMA — At 4:17 a.m. on February 28, 2026, Iranian ballistic missiles struck Naval Support Activity Bahrain, damaging the radar facility that
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RIYADH — Seven days into the most devastating aerial campaign in Middle Eastern history, Iran’s conventional military has been shattered beyond any
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NEW DELHI — The Iran war has placed India in the most precarious strategic position of the twenty-first century. With 9 million
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SINGAPORE — The Iran war has triggered the worst energy crisis in Asia since the 1973 oil embargo, with the Strait of
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RIYADH — The Iran war has handed Saudi Arabia the most potent energy leverage over Europe since the 1973 oil embargo, and
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ANKARA — On March 4, 2026, a NATO air defense battery intercepted an Iranian ballistic missile over Turkish airspace. Six days earlier,
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul All Share Index plunged as much as 5 percent in the opening minutes of trading on March
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia imports more than 80 percent of its food, and the single most important chokepoint for those supplies —
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Pakistan faces its most dangerous decision as the Iran-Saudi war tests the 2025 defence pact, 170 nuclear warheads, and 2.64 million workers
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VIENNA — On March 1, 2026, the OPEC+ alliance of oil-producing nations made what may rank among the most counterintuitive supply decisions
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WASHINGTON — No relationship in twenty-first-century geopolitics has been as nakedly transactional, as stubbornly durable, or as consequential as the one between
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DHAHRAN — The world is watching Iran’s drones hit Saudi oil refineries and counting the cost in barrels. It is asking the
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DHAHRAN — When Iranian drones struck Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura refinery complex on the morning of March 2, 2026, they did more
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RIYADH — In the first weeks of March 2026, as Iranian ballistic missile fragments cooled in the sands of the Eastern Province
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WASHINGTON — In late January 2026, two delegations arrived in Washington within forty-eight hours of each other. Saudi officials led by Prince
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s 13.4 million foreign workers — roughly 44 percent of the Kingdom’s entire population — are trapped in a
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Table of Contents What Is Saudi Arabia’s Air Defense Shield and How Much Did It Cost? How Large Was Iran’s Attack on
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Iranian drones struck three Amazon Web Services data centers across the UAE and Bahrain on Sunday, marking the first time a major
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RIYADH / WASHINGTON — On Sunday, standing before reporters in the White House, President Donald Trump offered a number that should have
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On Saturday, March 1, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement condemning what it called “blatant and cowardly Iranian attacks”
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The $35,000 Drone That Is Bankrupting Missile Defense Iran has discovered the most devastating weapon in its arsenal is not a nuclear
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Iran's Strait of Hormuz blockade has cut maritime traffic 70% and trapped Saudi oil exports. With Houthis threatening Bab el-Mandeb, a double
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