BAGHDAD — Iran-backed Iraqi militias launched 21 separate attacks against United States military installations across Iraq and the wider Gulf region in
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DHAHRAN — Twenty-two days of war between Iran and the United States have produced the most severe disruption to global energy markets
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia can produce 12 million barrels of oil per day. It has the wells, the processing plants, and the
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MIAMI — Saudi Arabia will open the fourth edition of its Future Investment Initiative Priority Summit in Miami on March 25, gathering
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RIYADH — The Iran war has produced over 300 documented environmental incidents across twelve countries in just three weeks, contaminated the Persian
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JEDDAH — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi completed a whirlwind diplomatic tour of four Gulf capitals in less than 48 hours this
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RIYADH — Twenty-three days into the Iran war, the Gulf states have intercepted more than 90 percent of the ballistic missiles and
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco, the world’s most valuable energy company, is managing the largest operational crisis in its seven-decade history. Twenty-two days
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RIYADH — The Iran war’s most dangerous moment arrived not with a missile launch but with a social media post. President Donald
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TEHRAN — Seven children, including a 10-day-old infant, were killed on March 21 when a US-Israeli airstrike struck a residential apartment building
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This cost asymmetry has created what amounts to a conventional form of Mutually Assured Destruction, where both sides hold the other’s critical
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RIYADH — The Pentagon has made detailed preparations for the direct deployment of American ground forces into Iran, according to multiple officials
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RIYADH — Four foreign ministers gathered in the Saudi capital on March 19, 2026, and the alliance they sketched on hotel stationery
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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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