TEHRAN — The 2026 Iran nuclear talks have not stalled because of wording gaps or sequencing disputes. They have stalled because the
MoreWASHINGTON — The United States Air Force MQ-9 Reaper fleet has fallen to 135 aircraft — 54 units below the 189-aircraft operational
MoreRIYADH — Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader since March 9, released a 14-page written statement on the Day of Arafah declaring that
MoreUNITED NATIONS — Pakistan Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar addressed the United Nations Security Council on May 26, 2026,
MoreRIYADH — Mohammed bin Salman called Masoud Pezeshkian on Eid al-Adha to discuss expanding bilateral ties. It was the only diplomatic channel
MoreTEHRAN — Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi, spokesman for Iran’s armed forces, warned in an Al Jazeera interview on May 26 that any
MoreRIYADH — HUMAIN, the PIF-owned artificial intelligence company that Mohammed bin Salman chairs personally, has appointed Goldman Sachs to raise SAR 20
MoreRIYADH — Mohammed bin Salman told American evangelical leader Mike Evans that he could recognize Israel “today” and that his father, King
MoreDUBAI — US Central Command struck missile launch sites and destroyed two IRGC fast boats near Bandar Abbas on May 25–26 —
MoreDHAHRAN — Brent crude fell as much as 6.2 per cent on Monday, touching $97.10 a barrel — its first break below
MoreRIYADH — Bloomberg reported on May 25 that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has scored “unexpected wins” from the Iran war —
MoreVIENNA — Austria’s Directorate for State Protection and Intelligence published an annual threat assessment concluding that Iran’s nuclear weapons programme is “well
MoreRIYADH — Donald Trump told his negotiators on May 24 not to rush into a deal with Iran because “time is on
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MoreRIYADH — A clause in the draft US-Iran memorandum of understanding requiring an end to the war in Lebanon has emerged as
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MoreWASHINGTON — Senator Tom Cotton sent a formal letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday demanding immediate sanctions on Iran’s Persian
MoreWASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said from New Delhi on May 23 that Iran could accept a deal to
MoreJEDDAH — Saudi Arabia’s terminal missile defense over the Hajj corridor has fallen to between 80 and 150 PAC-3 MSE interceptors —
MoreROME — The fifth round of US-Iran nuclear negotiations concluded at the Omani Embassy in Rome’s Camilluccia neighbourhood on May 23, 2026,
MoreDHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia’s OPEC+ production quota for June 2026 is 10.291 million barrels per day. In April, the kingdom produced 6.879
MoreNEOM — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has formally halted all construction on The Line, the 170-kilometre mirrored linear city that served
MoreDOHA — A Qatari negotiating team arrived in Tehran on Friday to help close the remaining gaps in the Hormuz memorandum of
MoreTEHRAN — Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority on May 22 published a jurisdiction map anchoring its claimed maritime management zone to two
MoreRIYADH — Al-Arabiya, the Saudi state-aligned broadcaster majority-owned by the Public Investment Fund, on May 22 published what it described as the
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