DHAHRAN — The conventional wisdom about Saudi Arabia’s Yanbu terminal goes something like this: the Kingdom is trapped. With the Strait of
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RIYADH — Iran’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia denied on Saturday that Tehran was responsible for attacks on the Kingdom’s oil infrastructure, telling
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RIYADH — President Donald Trump called on six nations to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz on March 14, promising a
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LONDON — Britain has deployed RAF Typhoon fighter jets and F-35 stealth aircraft to defend Gulf Cooperation Council states against Iranian drone
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MAKKAH — On the night of March 16, 2026, as hundreds of thousands of worshippers packed the Grand Mosque in Mecca for
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told NBC News on Saturday that Iran “wants to make a deal” to end the war launched
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DHAHRAN — Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has achieved in sixteen days what a decade of BRICS summits, petroyuan proposals,
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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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