DUBAI — Iran’s highest military command warned the United Arab Emirates on Friday that its armed forces would deliver “heavy and crushing
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RIYADH — Twenty-two days of sustained Iranian missile and drone attacks have done what three decades of defense exhibitions, lobbying delegations, and
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RIYADH — The war that Mohammed bin Salman spent a decade trying to avoid may be doing what a decade of peacetime
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The contradiction between de-escalation rhetoric and infrastructure threats has produced a mutual destruction standoff with no obvious exit ramp for either side.
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia entered the third week of the Iran war believing it could remain above the conflict. It absorbed drone
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YANBU — An Iranian drone crashed into Saudi Arabia’s Samref oil refinery in the Red Sea port city of Yanbu on Thursday,
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has quietly dismantled its most ambitious megaproject, breaking NEOM into at least five separate entities managed by different
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DHAHRAN — Brent crude oil surged past $119 per barrel on March 19 before crashing back below $111 within hours, capping the
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia possesses the most expensive and extensively equipped military in the Arab world, a force that has absorbed more
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RIYADH — Foreign ministers from twelve Arab and Islamic nations issued a joint statement on Wednesday condemning Iran’s sustained missile and drone
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has spent twenty days absorbing Iranian missiles, drones, and ballistic warheads without firing a single offensive shot at
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WASHINGTON — The United States approved more than $16.5 billion in emergency arms sales to the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Jordan
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DHAHRAN — The Iran war has destroyed something the world cannot quickly replace, and it is not crude oil. Three weeks of
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RIYADH — Iranian drones struck oil infrastructure in Kuwait and targeted military and energy sites across four Gulf states on Friday morning
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TOKYO — Japan and South Korea confront their most severe energy crisis since the 1973 Arab oil embargo, yet neither country has
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia will celebrate Eid al-Fitr on March 20 under conditions no living Saudi has experienced: the country is at
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RIYADH — Israel killed Iran’s intelligence minister Esmaeil Khatib in an overnight airstrike on Tehran early Wednesday, making him the third senior
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RIYADH — Ali Larijani spent decades navigating the corridors of Iranian power as philosopher, nuclear negotiator, and parliament speaker. On March 17,
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RIYADH — The destruction of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure in the opening hours of Operation Epic Fury eliminated the Middle East’s most advanced
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RIYADH — Ukraine’s four-year war against Russian-operated Iranian Shahed drones has produced exactly what the Gulf states now need most: interceptor drones
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BRUSSELS — European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday rejected expanding the bloc’s naval mission to the Strait of Hormuz,
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DHAHRAN — Iran launched nearly one hundred drones at Saudi Arabia on Monday, the largest single-day barrage since the war began eighteen
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WASHINGTON — The United States is allowing Iranian oil tankers to transit the Strait of Hormuz even as the two countries remain
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most trusted family member in charge. Behind the scenes, however, it was MBS himself who was privately urging Trump to deploy ground
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump spent the weekend working the phones to assemble a multinational naval coalition to reopen the Strait of
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