Mohammed Omar

NEW DELHI — India’s claim to strategic neutrality in the Iran-Saudi war expired at 12:01 AM on April 19, 2026 — the

JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia blocked a $1.5 billion Pakistani arms deal with Sudan and withdrew its financing commitment in March 2026, forcing

JEDDAH — The US Overseas Security Advisory Council issued a formal advisory on April 7, 2026, telling American citizens to “reconsider participating

TEHRAN — Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi cannot open the Strait of Hormuz. Not because he lacks the will — his April

NICOSIA — Saudi Arabia was not in the room when the European Union convened Arab leaders at Cyprus’s Filoxenia Conference Centre on

LONDON — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps did not seize a random container ship on April 22. By targeting MSC Francesca —

ISLAMABAD — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi landed in Islamabad late Friday with what IRNA described as a “small delegation” — his

JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia engineered the three-week Lebanon ceasefire extension announced on April 23 without appearing in the room where it was

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump faces a May 1 deadline under the War Powers Resolution to either obtain congressional authorization for the

MANAMA — The Gulf Cooperation Council’s military coordination apparatus met in Bahrain on April 24 — not as a six-nation summit but

RIYADH — South Korea dispatched Presidential Chief of Staff Kang Hoon-sik as a special envoy to Riyadh between April 7 and 14,

JEDDAH — The most dangerous outcome for Saudi Arabia is not a failed negotiation over the Strait of Hormuz. It is a

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RIYADH — China did not volunteer to become the mediator of the Hormuz crisis. The structural geometry of the war — Beijing’s