ISLAMABAD — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi landed in Islamabad on Tuesday, April 28, for his third visit in roughly 48 hours,
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MoreTEHRAN — Saeed Jalili, the hardline former nuclear negotiator whose six-year tenure at the head of Iran’s P5+1 delegation produced three UN
MoreJEDDAH — Thirty-six thousand Bangladeshi pilgrims have reached Saudi Arabia. Iraqi families are crossing at Jadidat Arar. Indonesia’s first Hajj flights departed
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MoreJEDDAH — The first group of Iranian Hajj pilgrims landed at Medina’s Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz International Airport on April 25, 2026,
MoreWASHINGTON — On April 27, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio described Iran’s version of an open Strait of Hormuz in nineteen
MoreNEW YORK — The 11th Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons opens today at United Nations headquarters
MoreWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump convened his senior national security principals in the White House Situation Room on Sunday to deliberate on
MoreDHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia has lost its status as the world’s swing producer of crude oil — the single most consequential asset
MoreANTALYA — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan from the air on April 27, briefing
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JEDDAH — Iran transmitted a three-phase written proposal to the United States via Pakistan on April 25–27, sequencing a full ceasefire first,
MoreMUSCAT — Iran’s foreign minister is not negotiating a ceasefire. He is building the institutional architecture that would make Iran a permanent
MoreLONDON — IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez briefed the United Nations Security Council on Sunday on what he called an unprecedented maritime humanitarian
MoreMOKHA, Yemen — Two Houthi anti-ship ballistic missiles struck the Panama-flagged crude tanker MV Andromeda Star approximately 15 nautical miles southwest of
MoreMOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin received Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi at the Kremlin on April 27 for the highest-level Russia-Iran
MoreJEDDAH — Iranian-backed Houthi forces fired three anti-ship ballistic missiles at two commercial vessels southwest of Mokha on April 26, striking the
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MoreMANAMA — Bahrain submitted a draft Security Council resolution on April 6 demanding Iran cease all interference with transit passage through the
MoreMUSCAT — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met Sultan Haitham bin Tariq in Muscat on April 26, 2026, securing a head-of-state audience
More{“content”: “ {“content”: “ n DUBAI u2014 Only five ships transited the Strait of Hormuz in the 24 hours ending April 24,
MoreJEDDAH — Saudi Arabia’s $13.1 billion reconstruction commitment to Syria is not charity — it is infrastructure positioning for a world in
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