NEW DELHI — India’s claim to strategic neutrality in the Iran-Saudi war expired at 12:01 AM on April 19, 2026 — the
MoreJEDDAH — Saudi Arabia blocked a $1.5 billion Pakistani arms deal with Sudan and withdrew its financing commitment in March 2026, forcing
MoreJEDDAH — The US Overseas Security Advisory Council issued a formal advisory on April 7, 2026, telling American citizens to “reconsider participating
MoreDHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco cut the Official Selling Price for Arab Light crude to Asia by $0.40 per barrel for July loading,
MoreTEHRAN — Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi cannot open the Strait of Hormuz. Not because he lacks the will — his April
MoreDHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco is forecast to report a 57% quarter-on-quarter profit surge for Q1 2026 — $29.01 billion in net income,
MoreWASHINGTON — The US Treasury on Friday designated Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery Co., Ltd., a Fortune Global 500 company and China’s second-largest
MoreJEDDAH — More than 48,000 foreign pilgrims had arrived in Saudi Arabia by April 24 for Hajj 2026, according to aggregated figures
MoreNICOSIA — Saudi Arabia was not in the room when the European Union convened Arab leaders at Cyprus’s Filoxenia Conference Centre on
MoreWASHINGTON — The Pentagon told the House Armed Services Committee on April 22 that clearing Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz
MoreDUBAI — A US-sanctioned supertanker loaded with two million barrels of Iranian crude halted near Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz
MoreLONDON — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps did not seize a random container ship on April 22. By targeting MSC Francesca —
MoreISLAMABAD — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi landed in Islamabad late Friday with what IRNA described as a “small delegation” — his
MoreJEDDAH — Saudi Arabia engineered the three-week Lebanon ceasefire extension announced on April 23 without appearing in the room where it was
MoreWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump faces a May 1 deadline under the War Powers Resolution to either obtain congressional authorization for the
MoreContents Three Ships in Five Days What Is the Dark Fleet — and Why Can’t a Ceasefire Touch It? The Tifani and
MoreMANAMA — The Gulf Cooperation Council’s military coordination apparatus met in Bahrain on April 24 — not as a six-nation summit but
MoreWASHINGTON — The United States has deployed Ukrainian-built counter-drone technology and Ukrainian military trainers at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia,
MoreRIYADH — South Korea dispatched Presidential Chief of Staff Kang Hoon-sik as a special envoy to Riyadh between April 7 and 14,
MoreJEDDAH — The most dangerous outcome for Saudi Arabia is not a failed negotiation over the Strait of Hormuz. It is a
MoreTOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Wednesday and asked him directly for more
MoreRIYADH — Donald Trump’s April 23 order for the US Navy to “shoot and kill any boat” laying mines in the Strait
MoreTable of Contents What Is the STEP Quartet? How Did Four States With No Treaty Broker a Ceasefire? The Architecture of Failure
MoreRIYADH — A classified Pentagon briefing to the House Armed Services Committee on April 22 confirmed what shipping insurers and Saudi fiscal
MoreRIYADH — China did not volunteer to become the mediator of the Hormuz crisis. The structural geometry of the war — Beijing’s
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