n DUBAI — Iranian Revolutionary Guard gunboats opened fire on two Indian-flagged commercial vessels attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz on
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ISLAMABAD — The seizure of the M/V Touska in the Gulf of Oman on April 19 did not collapse the Islamabad Round
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Turkey and Pakistan Are Already Past the April 22 Deadline ISLAMABAD — Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan declared on April 19 that
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MUSCAT — Iran launched drone strikes against a US military support vessel and the Port of Salalah in Oman on April 20,
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Table of Contents What Did the IRGC Navy Broadcast on Channel 16? The Sequence: Tweet, Market Crash, Override Why Does VHF Channel
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MUSCAT — The guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance fired on and boarded the Iranian-flagged container ship TOUSKA in the Gulf of Oman on
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Table of Contents Saudi Arabia Told Washington to End the Blockade The Yanbu Bottleneck Can the Houthis Actually Close Bab el-Mandeb? Iran’s
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TEHRAN — Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf did not make a threat on Saturday night. He published a precondition. In a one-hour address on
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JEDDAH — The first international pilgrims for Hajj 2026 landed in Makkah and Madinah on April 18-19 under the Makkah Route Initiative,
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CENTCOM Deploys A-10 Warthogs and Apaches Over Hormuz, Turns Back 23 Vessels Before Ceasefire Expiry
Table of Contents Why Is CENTCOM Flying A-10 Warthogs Over the Strait of Hormuz? What Does the A-10 Deployment Signal to IRGC
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JEDDAH — Iran’s response to the ceasefire framework arrived in Saudi Arabia on April 16 — hand-delivered by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz
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DHAHRAN — The physical crude oil market has detached from its financial derivative by $35–49 per barrel, and every major fiscal assessment
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DHAHRAN — Brent crude closed at $99.36 on April 18 after IRGC gunboats fired on two Indian-flagged vessels in the Strait of
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ANTALYA — Turkey closed the Antalya Diplomacy Forum on April 19 without a signed security agreement, a joint communique, or even a
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NEOM — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has reclassified NEOM as an “independent ecosystem” — a designation that severs the $500 billion
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RIYADH — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan on April 18, a day in
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Washington Wants to Pay $20 Billion to Make Iran’s Uranium Disappear — Then Ask Saudi Arabia to Give Up the Same Right
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia enters the final 96 hours before the US-Iran ceasefire expires on April 22 facing three simultaneous exposure vectors
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Strait of Hormuz toll scheme has been operational for 36 days and has collected zero dollars. Sixty transit permits
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps overrode Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s declaration that the Strait of Hormuz was “completely open” for
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ISLAMABAD — The Islamabad Accord expires on April 22 and cannot be procedurally extended, because the Iranian official whose institutional authorization is
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DHAHRAN — Sadara Chemical Company, the $20 billion Aramco-Dow joint venture in Jubail Industrial City II, filed a regulatory disclosure to the
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WASHINGTON — Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on Thursday signed a formal agreement extending a $3 billion Saudi Fund for Development deposit with
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RIYADH — Iran’s foreign minister declared the Strait of Hormuz open on April 17 — not because the war ended, but because
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Changed: True ANTALYA — The foreign ministers of Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt convened their third quadrilateral meeting on April 17
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