NEOM — Saudi Arabia has killed NEOM. Not with an announcement but with an autopsy performed in public, one contract termination at
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RIYADH — The military campaign against Iran has a finite timeline, but the reconstruction contest that follows will determine the Middle East’s
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NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on March 28, 2026 — the second wartime
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MUSCAT — Oman is the last neutral state in the Persian Gulf, and the most consequential. One month into a war that
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MIAMI — Donald Trump stood on a stage built with Saudi money, looked out at a room full of sovereign wealth fund
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DHAHRAN — Brent crude surged 4.22 percent on Friday to settle at $112.57 per barrel, its highest close since July 2022, while
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RIYADH — One month after the first American and Israeli bombs struck Iran on February 28, Saudi Arabia’s war ledger defies simple
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PARIS — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan held five bilateral meetings in 48 hours at the G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting
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RIYADH — Mohammed bin Salman has absorbed approximately 600 Iranian drone and missile strikes since February 28, watched four Aramco supergiant oil
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MIAMI — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund unveiled plans for a new five-year strategy at the FII PRIORITY Miami summit on March
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RIYADH — The Gulf Cooperation Council has spent more than $130 billion annually on defense across its six member states, yet four
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JEDDAH — Yemen’s Houthi forces launched a ballistic missile barrage against Israel on March 28, marking the group’s first direct military intervention
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TEHRAN — Iran’s war is not being directed by its Supreme Leader. Four weeks after the Assembly of Experts elected Mojtaba Khamenei
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TEHRAN — Iran is converting the Strait of Hormuz from an international waterway into a sovereign toll road, complete with formal legislation,
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RIYADH — The Strait of Hormuz carries roughly 30 percent of the world’s seaborne fertilizer trade, and since February 28 that trade
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia Railways launched an international freight corridor on Wednesday linking the Kingdom’s Eastern Province ports to the Jordanian border,
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DHAHRAN — The attack that shut down Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura terminal on March 12 destroyed more than a loading dock. It
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is considering sending up to 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle East as the Iran war enters
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RIYADH — Iran launched forty-seven drones at Saudi Arabia on March 23. The next day, it launched fewer than half that number.
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RIYADH — An Iranian missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base south of Riyadh wounded at least ten American service
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s April 6 deadline to destroy Iran’s energy infrastructure is nine days away, and every scenario that follows
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RIYADH — On March 27, seventeen Iranian drones crossed into Saudi airspace over the Eastern Province and every one of them was
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WASHINGTON — The American military commitment to Saudi Arabia has an expiration date that neither Riyadh nor Washington has honestly addressed. Twenty-eight
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RIYADH — Iraq is about to decide the outcome of this war, and Saudi Arabia is not ready for the answer. When
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RIYADH — The war in Iran will end. Whether it ends next week through the Witkoff fifteen-point framework floated on March 26,
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