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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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia is fighting two wars simultaneously. The first involves Patriot batteries, THAAD interceptors, and Iranian ballistic missiles screaming toward
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NEW YORK — Gulf Cooperation Council states circulated a draft United Nations Security Council resolution on Sunday demanding that Iran “immediately and
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RIYADH — The Iran war has turned the global defence industry into the most profitable sector on the planet. In eleven days
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RIYADH — Three years to the day after Saudi and Iranian officials signed the China-brokered agreement that restored diplomatic relations between the
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s multibillion-dollar missile defense network has intercepted hundreds of Iranian ballistic missiles and drones since the war began on
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened Iran with “death, fire, and fury” if Tehran continues to block oil shipments through
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MUSCAT — Eleven days into the most destructive military confrontation the Persian Gulf has witnessed in a generation, the only telephone line
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WASHINGTON — Senator Lindsey Graham threatened on Monday to withdraw support for a long-sought United States-Saudi Arabia mutual defense agreement unless the
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RIYADH — Iran’s simultaneous missile and drone attacks on all six Gulf Cooperation Council states in late February 2026 accomplished something that
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KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait closed its airspace, slashed oil production, and declared force majeure on petroleum exports after Iranian drone strikes damaged
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RIYADH — The war between the United States, Israel, and Iran has killed a Supreme Leader, shattered oil markets, and sent drones
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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Tuesday that the United States would carry out its most intense day of strikes
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia poured more than $100 billion into the most ambitious aviation transformation in modern history. The Kingdom ordered 182
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RIYADH — Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi declared on March 8 that Tehran will not accept a ceasefire or negotiate with the
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RIYADH — The Iran war has cost Saudi Arabia far more than the official narrative suggests, and the gap between the oil
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AL-KHARJ — Army Sergeant Benjamin Pennington, 26, of Glendale, Kentucky, died on March 8 from wounds sustained during an Iranian ballistic missile
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