The geopolitical landscape of the Middle East has been fundamentally reconfigured during the ongoing high-intensity conflict. This report provides an exhaustive technical
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DHAHRAN — Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia collectively supply roughly a quarter of the world’s oil and a fifth of its liquefied
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TEHRAN — Iran does not have one military. It has at least thirty-two. That is why no ceasefire is coming. The Islamic
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WASHINGTON — The world’s most powerful navy cannot yet clear a 21-mile-wide waterway that carries a fifth of the planet’s oil. Two
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WASHINGTON — A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in western Iraq on Thursday with six crew members on board, marking the
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, a $941 billion sovereign wealth machine built to wean the Kingdom off oil, is being
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TEHRAN — Iran’s new supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei broke nearly two weeks of silence on Thursday with a combative first public
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RIYADH — The Strait of Hormuz carries one-third of the world’s traded fertilizer, and two weeks of war have reduced that flow
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has assembled a wartime support network spanning four continents, fifteen countries, and three aircraft carrier strike groups —
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RIYADH — Six commercial vessels came under attack in the Persian Gulf on a single day this week, at least two of
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RIYADH — The American missile defense architecture protecting Saudi Arabia and its Gulf neighbours is degrading faster than the Pentagon can repair
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RIYADH — Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif landed in Riyadh on Wednesday for an urgent meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,
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RIYADH — Iran named its price for peace on March 12 — reparations for American and Israeli strikes, international guarantees against future
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RIYADH — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian laid out three formal conditions for ending the war on Thursday, marking Tehran’s first shift from
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RIYADH — Iran’s declaration that Gulf banks and financial institutions are legitimate military targets has triggered the fastest exodus of international finance
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Cabinet has designated 2026 as the Year of Artificial Intelligence, formalizing the Kingdom’s accelerating drive to position itself
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DHAHRAN — Iran is shipping approximately 1.3 million barrels of crude oil per day to China through the Strait of Hormuz —
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SAN FRANCISCO — Saudi Arabia’s $38 billion plan to become the world’s dominant force in video gaming is colliding with the reality
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RIYADH — Mojtaba Khamenei became the third supreme leader in the Islamic Republic’s 47-year history on 8 March 2026, inheriting a wartime
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RIYADH — Russia is simultaneously coordinating oil production with Saudi Arabia through OPEC+ and providing Iran with satellite intelligence, drone technology, and
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DUBAI — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy declared on Wednesday that all vessels must obtain Iranian permission before transiting the Strait
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WASHINGTON — Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman walked into the White House on November 18, 2025, carrying a number so large it
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation on Tuesday named Chubb as the lead underwriter for a $20 billion maritime reinsurance
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RIYADH — The Saudi riyal has held its peg to the United States dollar at 3.75 for nearly four decades, surviving oil
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MUSCAT — Iranian drones struck fuel storage tanks at Oman’s Port of Salalah on Tuesday, setting at least three tanks ablaze and
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