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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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter adjusted profit of $25.1 billion and announced a $3 billion share buyback programme, delivering
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RIYADH — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps pledged on Monday to launch only missiles carrying warheads weighing at least one ton, a
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RIYADH — Ten days of Iranian missiles, drone swarms, and retaliatory airstrikes have killed dozens and pushed oil past $110 a barrel.
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CAIRO — Arab foreign ministers convened an emergency session of the Arab League Council on March 8 and issued a 16-point statement
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RIYADH — Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, has spent the past eleven days conducting what may be
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared the war against Iran “very complete” in a CBS News interview broadcast Sunday, telling the network
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RIYADH — Ten days into the most sustained aerial bombardment the Arabian Peninsula has faced in modern history, Saudi Arabia confronts a
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RIYADH — Ten days into the most dangerous military confrontation the Kingdom has faced since its founding, the missiles and drones striking
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WASHINGTON — When Israeli warplanes struck Kharg Island in the early hours of March 8, turning Iran’s largest oil export terminal into
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The Iran war moved into a more dangerous phase on Sunday, March 8, as the conflict spread beyond military bases, oil installations
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Wars are often narrated as contests over territory, ideology or military prestige. For Saudi Arabia, the Iran war is already something else
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Update, March 14: Formula 1 confirmed the cancellation of both the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix, as the Iran war grounds
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Saudi Arabia and the wider Gulf entered Sunday, March 8, still absorbing the aftershocks of another intense 24 hours in the expanding
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LONDON — Britain is sending warships, fighter jets, and intelligence assets to defend Saudi Arabia from Iranian missile and drone strikes, marking
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CAIRO — As Iranian ballistic missiles streak across Gulf skies and Saudi air defenses intercept drones over Riyadh, the largest Arab military
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s multi-layered air defense network has intercepted dozens of Iranian ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and attack drones since Tehran
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MANAMA — At 4:17 a.m. on February 28, 2026, Iranian ballistic missiles struck Naval Support Activity Bahrain, damaging the radar facility that
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RIYADH — Seven days into the most devastating aerial campaign in Middle Eastern history, Iran’s conventional military has been shattered beyond any
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NEW DELHI — The Iran war has placed India in the most precarious strategic position of the twenty-first century. With 9 million
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SINGAPORE — The Iran war has triggered the worst energy crisis in Asia since the 1973 oil embargo, with the Strait of
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RIYADH — The Iran war has handed Saudi Arabia the most potent energy leverage over Europe since the 1973 oil embargo, and
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ANKARA — On March 4, 2026, a NATO air defense battery intercepted an Iranian ballistic missile over Turkish airspace. Six days earlier,
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul All Share Index plunged as much as 5 percent in the opening minutes of trading on March
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia imports more than 80 percent of its food, and the single most important chokepoint for those supplies —
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