DHAHRAN — Goldman Sachs published a Q2 Brent forecast of $90 per barrel on April 8, cut from $99, on the strength
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ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates on April 8 formally demanded that Iran be “held accountable and fully liable for damages
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Table of Contents Who Ghalibaf Is What Are the Three Violations Ghalibaf Claims? Why Did Vance Call Three Violations “Quite a Lot
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WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt produced three contradictory formulations of the Trump administration’s position on an Iran-US Strait of
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JEDDAH — The two-week ceasefire agreed on April 7 expires on approximately April 21. Indonesia’s first Hajj charter departs April 22. Between
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told ABC News on April 8, 2026, that the United States is considering operating the Strait of
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The ceasefire is real. The agreement behind it may not be. At 6:32 p.m. Eastern on April 7, less than ninety minutes
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The guns stopped at 2:02 a.m. Tehran time. Forty days after the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury with the
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ISLAMABAD — Iran’s ten-point peace plan, published through the SNSC-affiliated Nour News agency on April 8, demands the withdrawal of all US
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Supreme National Security Council accepted a two-week ceasefire on April 7, crediting the “guidance” of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei,
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DUBAI — Iran permitted between 15 and 20 vessels to transit the Strait of Hormuz in the first 24 hours after the
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DHAHRAN — The United States struck more than 50 military targets on Kharg Island on April 7, the second systematic destruction of
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JEDDAH — Approximately 3,200 commercial vessels and 20,000 seafarers remain trapped in Gulf waters west of the Strait of Hormuz, caught inside
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DHAHRAN — The United States has struck Kharg Island twice in thirty-six days. Both times it left the oil terminals standing. The
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defense on Monday released its first cumulative air defense tally since the Iran war began, reporting
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Table of Contents Ten Points Against Fifteen: The Written Exchange What Did Trump Actually Say at the Easter Egg Roll? The Phase
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DHAHRAN — Aramco priced May-loading Arab Light crude to Asia at +$19.50 per barrel over the Oman/Dubai average — the highest official
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ASALUYEH — Israel struck the South Pars petrochemical complex at Asaluyeh on April 6, 2026, at approximately 2:10 p.m. local time, killing
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RIYADH — The Public Investment Fund released its 2026-2030 strategy during the week Saudi exports through the Strait of Hormuz fell to
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Iran Rejects Trump’s Hormuz Deadline Because No One Inside Tehran Can Accept It TEHRAN — Iran’s rejection of the Trump administration’s Hormuz
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared on Truth Social early Easter Sunday that Tuesday would be “Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day,
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s non-oil private sector contracted in March for the first time since the COVID-19 lockdowns of August 2020, with
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WASHINGTON — Poland has publicly rejected a US request to transfer one of its two operational Patriot PAC-3 batteries to the Middle
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ISLAMABAD — The United States and Iran came within hours of holding their first direct meeting since the war began, and then
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RIYADH — On April 2, 2026, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan held telephone calls with Russia’s Sergey Lavrov, China’s Wang
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