JEDDAH — Approximately 3,200 commercial vessels and 20,000 seafarers remain trapped in Gulf waters west of the Strait of Hormuz, caught inside
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DHAHRAN — The United States has struck Kharg Island twice in thirty-six days. Both times it left the oil terminals standing. The
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defense on Monday released its first cumulative air defense tally since the Iran war began, reporting
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Table of Contents Ten Points Against Fifteen: The Written Exchange What Did Trump Actually Say at the Easter Egg Roll? The Phase
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DHAHRAN — Aramco priced May-loading Arab Light crude to Asia at +$19.50 per barrel over the Oman/Dubai average — the highest official
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ASALUYEH — Israel struck the South Pars petrochemical complex at Asaluyeh on April 6, 2026, at approximately 2:10 p.m. local time, killing
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RIYADH — The Public Investment Fund released its 2026-2030 strategy during the week Saudi exports through the Strait of Hormuz fell to
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Iran Rejects Trump’s Hormuz Deadline Because No One Inside Tehran Can Accept It TEHRAN — Iran’s rejection of the Trump administration’s Hormuz
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared on Truth Social early Easter Sunday that Tuesday would be “Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day,
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s non-oil private sector contracted in March for the first time since the COVID-19 lockdowns of August 2020, with
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WASHINGTON — Poland has publicly rejected a US request to transfer one of its two operational Patriot PAC-3 batteries to the Middle
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ISLAMABAD — The United States and Iran came within hours of holding their first direct meeting since the war began, and then
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RIYADH — On April 2, 2026, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan held telephone calls with Russia’s Sergey Lavrov, China’s Wang
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RIYADH — President Donald Trump on Saturday shelved his April 6 ultimatum to reopen the Strait of Hormuz after Iran confirmed it
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TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who told Al Jazeera on April 1 that “the trust level is at zero” with
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DHAHRAN — Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf posted a question to X on April 4 that was not a question. “What
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TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s statement on April 4 that “radioactive fallout will end life in GCC capitals, not Tehran”
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RIYADH — Iran’s repeated strikes on Prince Sultan Air Base in al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia, have destroyed at least three KC-135 Stratotanker aerial
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Table of Contents The Four-Day Escalation: 40 to 79 Projectiles Can the UAE Keep Intercepting at This Rate? Why Did the UAE
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TEHRAN/RIYADH — Iran rejected a US proposal for a 48-hour ceasefire on Day 36 of the war, communicating its refusal not through
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is in advanced talks to take an anchor stake of roughly $5 billion in SpaceX’s
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JEDDAH — Iran’s parliament is converting the Strait of Hormuz from a contested chokepoint into a toll road. The National Security and
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RIYADH — U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday renewed his threat to destroy Iran’s power plants, oil infrastructure, and desalination facilities if
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DUBAI — The CMA CGM Kribi, a Malta-flagged container ship operated by France’s CMA CGM, passed through the Strait of Hormuz on
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KUWAIT CITY — Iranian drone and missile strikes hit Kuwait’s Mina al-Ahmadi oil refinery and a power-and-water desalination plant on April 3,
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