DHAHRAN — Brent crude closed at $99.36 on April 18 after IRGC gunboats fired on two Indian-flagged vessels in the Strait of
MoreANTALYA — Turkey closed the Antalya Diplomacy Forum on April 19 without a signed security agreement, a joint communique, or even a
MoreNEOM — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has reclassified NEOM as an “independent ecosystem” — a designation that severs the $500 billion
MoreRIYADH — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan on April 18, a day in
MoreWashington Wants to Pay $20 Billion to Make Iran’s Uranium Disappear — Then Ask Saudi Arabia to Give Up the Same Right
MoreRIYADH — Saudi Arabia enters the final 96 hours before the US-Iran ceasefire expires on April 22 facing three simultaneous exposure vectors
MoreTEHRAN — Iran’s Strait of Hormuz toll scheme has been operational for 36 days and has collected zero dollars. Sixty transit permits
MoreTEHRAN — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps overrode Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s declaration that the Strait of Hormuz was “completely open” for
MoreISLAMABAD — The Islamabad Accord expires on April 22 and cannot be procedurally extended, because the Iranian official whose institutional authorization is
MoreDHAHRAN — Sadara Chemical Company, the $20 billion Aramco-Dow joint venture in Jubail Industrial City II, filed a regulatory disclosure to the
MoreWASHINGTON — Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on Thursday signed a formal agreement extending a $3 billion Saudi Fund for Development deposit with
MoreRIYADH — Iran’s foreign minister declared the Strait of Hormuz open on April 17 — not because the war ended, but because
MoreChanged: True ANTALYA — The foreign ministers of Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt convened their third quadrilateral meeting on April 17
MoreJEDDAH — Indonesia’s advance Hajj officials departed for Saudi Arabia on Thursday as foreign ministers from Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt
More{“content”: “ DHAHRAN u2014 Saudi Arabia lost 3.15 million barrels per day of crude production in a single month. The East-West Pipeline,
MoreSaudi Arabia Did Not Go to Paris RIYADH — Approximately thirty nations convened at the Élysée Palace on Thursday for a summit
MoreLONDON — The April 17 Paris summit on the Strait of Hormuz produced something its forty-one participating nations did not advertise and
More$CO The question of whether Iran formally agreed to the MOU’s core terms — or merely acknowledged a document it intends to
MoreJEDDAH — On April 16, Pakistan’s Army Chief Asim Munir sat across from Iranian officials in Tehran carrying a US nuclear message,
MoreISLAMABAD — Pakistani officials announced a “major breakthrough” on Iran’s nuclear programme on April 16, 2026, with Army Chief Asim Munir leading
MoreJEDDAH — For two hours on April 16, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sat across from Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Jeddah
MoreRIYADH — Yasir Al-Rumayyan told Al Arabiya on April 15, 2026, that completing The Line by 2030 was “good to have, but
MoreRIYADH — Between March 13 and March 15, a Chinese commercial Earth-observation satellite passed over Prince Sultan Air Base in Al-Kharj on
MoreTEHRAN — Pakistan’s Field Marshal Asim Munir landed in Tehran on April 15, 2026, carrying what Al Jazeera described as “a new
MoreDHAHRAN — 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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