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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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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