JEDDAH — Indonesia’s advance Hajj officials departed for Saudi Arabia on Thursday as foreign ministers from Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia lost 3.15 million barrels per day of crude production in a single month. The East-West Pipeline, restored to
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Saudi Arabia Did Not Go to Paris RIYADH — Approximately thirty nations convened at the Élysée Palace on Thursday for a summit
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LONDON — The April 17 Paris summit on the Strait of Hormuz produced something its forty-one participating nations did not advertise and
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump announced on April 16 that Iran agreed to surrender its enriched uranium stockpile. Iran has said nothing. The
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JEDDAH — On April 16, Pakistan’s Army Chief Asim Munir sat across from Iranian officials in Tehran carrying a US nuclear message,
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani officials announced a “major breakthrough” on Iran’s nuclear programme on April 16, 2026, with Army Chief Asim Munir leading
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JEDDAH — For two hours on April 16, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sat across from Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Jeddah
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RIYADH — Yasir Al-Rumayyan told Al Arabiya on April 15, 2026, that completing The Line by 2030 was “good to have, but
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RIYADH — Between March 13 and March 15, a Chinese commercial Earth-observation satellite passed over Prince Sultan Air Base in Al-Kharj on
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TEHRAN — Pakistan’s Field Marshal Asim Munir landed in Tehran on April 15, 2026, carrying what Al Jazeera described as “a new
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DHAHRAN — The US Energy Information Administration’s April Short-Term Energy Outlook gives Saudi Arabia a $96 annual Brent average for 2026 —
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JEDDAH — Iran’s threat to Saudi Arabia’s export routes is no longer implicit, conditional, or confined to the Strait of Hormuz. On
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RIYADH — On April 15, regional officials told the Associated Press that the United States and Iran had reached “in-principle agreement” to
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RIYADH — The International Monetary Fund cut Saudi Arabia’s 2026 growth forecast from 4.5% to 3.1% on April 14, and every headline
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s refusal to endorse any of three competing frameworks for reopening the Strait of Hormuz is the clearest evidence
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ANTALYA — The quadrilateral meeting among Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt at the 5th Antalya Diplomacy Forum on April 17-19 is
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NEW YORK — Iran’s demand that five Arab states pay reparations for enabling US-Israeli strikes is not a legal claim with any
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DHAHRAN — OPEC’s April monthly report confirms what commodity desks already suspected: the Iran war produced the largest crude supply shock in
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ISLAMABAD — The fifteen-year gap between Washington’s demand for a twenty-year Iranian enrichment moratorium and Tehran’s offer of five years is not
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Iran Says Its Arsenal Is Full Again. Saudi Arabia Has 400 Interceptors Left. RIYADH — The ceasefire that began on April 8
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China Sent Two Signals on Day One of the Hormuz Blockade — Neither Was an Accident DUBAI — Within hours of the
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia’s formal request that Washington lift the Iran blockade is not a diplomatic gesture toward Tehran. It is a
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RIYADH — Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed bin Abdullah al-Jadaan landed in Islamabad on April 11 — the same day JD Vance sat
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s decision to route its post-collapse diplomacy through Riyadh — not back to Islamabad, not to a neutral capital —
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