The conflict in the Persian Gulf entered its sixteenth day on Sunday with a series of significant military escalations and a hardening
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RIYADH — Fifteen days of Iranian missile and drone attacks have done what no domestic opposition movement, no oil price collapse, and
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RIYADH — The United States has deployed 10,000 AI-powered interceptor drones to the Middle East to counter Iran’s sustained aerial campaign against
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RIYADH — The Iran war has sent oil prices past $120 a barrel for the first time since 2022, but the conflict
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump called on China, France, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and other nations to send warships to
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia imports more than 80 percent of its food, spends upward of $25 billion a year doing so, and
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RIYADH — Russia is earning an estimated $150 million per day in additional oil revenue from a war that is simultaneously bombing
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DOHA — Hamas called on Iran to stop attacking Gulf Arab states on Saturday, issuing a formal statement that urged its “brothers
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RIYADH — The Iran war has torn a hole in the global oil supply chain so large that an entire continent is
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RIYADH — Iranian missiles have damaged five U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia,
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RIYADH — The American military bases that were supposed to shield Saudi Arabia from Iranian aggression have become the primary reason Iran
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DUBAI — Iran approved the passage of Turkish, Indian, and Saudi-chartered vessels through the Strait of Hormuz on March 13, marking the
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RIYADH — The Gulf Cooperation Council was designed for exactly this moment — a direct military threat from Iran against all six
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WASHINGTON — The United States State Department announced on Friday a $10 million reward for information on Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba
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RIYADH — Fourteen days of Iranian missiles and drones accomplished what decades of Saudi diplomatic manoeuvring could not: they shattered the United
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has ordered the USS Tripoli, an 855-foot amphibious assault ship carrying F-35B Lightning II stealth fighters, along with
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RIYADH — Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, the Saudi energy minister who once warned oil speculators they would be “ouching like hell,” now
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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei was “wounded and likely disfigured” in the
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RIYADH — On the fourteenth day of the Iran war, March 14, 2026, Saudi Arabia’s air defense batteries had intercepted 25 ballistic
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DUBAI — The International Maritime Organization warned on Friday that more than 3,000 commercial vessels and 20,000 seafarers remain stranded across the
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DHAHRAN — President Donald Trump announced on March 13 that the United States had “totally obliterated every MILITARY target” on Iran’s Kharg
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JEDDAH — Formula 1 is set to cancel both the Bahrain Grand Prix and the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in April 2026,
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BEIJING — China imports roughly 40 percent of its crude oil and 30 percent of its liquefied natural gas through the Strait
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SANAA — Thirteen days into the most destructive conflict the Middle East has seen since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the region’s
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AMMAN — Jordan declares itself neutral. Its F-16s are shooting down Iranian drones. Its largest air base has been hit by 119
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