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US Army soldiers walk through Camp Buehring, Kuwait, a forward operating base in the northern desert used as a staging point for CENTCOM helicopter operations

Forty Years of Deterrence Ended at Camp Buehring

May 28, 2026May 29, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

KUWAIT CITY — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck Camp Buehring in northern Kuwait early on May 28, targeting what it called

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Iranian IRGC generals review a ballistic missile at the Sacred Defence Week parade in Tehran, September 2023, flanked by portraits of Khomeini and Khamenei

What Iran Rebuilt in Forty-Five Days

May 25, 2026May 26, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

RIYADH — The 60-day US-Iran ceasefire that began April 8 is functioning as Iran’s rearmament window. On May 21, a US official

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Trump and MBS pose for a portrait in the White House Cabinet Room with US and Saudi flags, November 2025

The Phone Call That May Not Have Happened: WSJ Says Gulf Leaders Never Made the Veto Trump Credited Them With

May 19, 2026May 20, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

RIYADH — Gulf officials told the Wall Street Journal on May 19 that they had no idea a US strike on Iran

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ISS satellite view of Qeshm Island, Larak Island, and the Strait of Hormuz — the geographic setting for Iran’s PGSA transit authority. Photo: NASA/JSC Earth Science Unit, Public Domain

Iran Built a Hormuz Customs Agency While the World Negotiated

May 14, 2026May 17, 2026
Energy & Oil

TEHRAN — Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority is not a negotiating position. It is a functioning customs bureaucracy — with a domain

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Kuwait northern Persian Gulf coastline and Bubiyan Island seen from the International Space Station — the island sits at the junction of Iraq's Khor Abdullah waterway and the northern Gulf entrance

Kuwait Summons Iran’s Ambassador Over Bubiyan Infiltration — and Stops There

May 13, 2026May 15, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait summoned Iran’s ambassador on May 13 to deliver a formal protest over the armed infiltration of Bubiyan Island

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Three US Navy carrier strike groups — USS Nimitz, USS Kitty Hawk, USS John C. Stennis — in formation with B-52 bomber and fighter aircraft overhead during Valiant Shield 2007

America’s Legal Authority to Defend Saudi Arabia Expires Thursday

April 28, 2026May 2, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

WASHINGTON — The War Powers Resolution’s 60-day clock runs out on May 1, three days from now, and the Trump administration has

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UN Security Council chamber during a high-level open debate, showing the horseshoe table with member state delegates, observer seating, and the Per Krohg mural — the same configuration used for the April 27, 2026 maritime security session on Hormuz

Guterres Warns of Global Food Emergency as Saudi Arabia Publicly Accuses Iran at UNSC Hormuz Debate

April 28, 2026April 28, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

Guterres Warns of Global Food Emergency as Saudi Arabia Publicly Accuses Iran at UNSC Hormuz Debate Table of Contents Eighty Nations, One

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NASA MODIS satellite image showing the Strait of Hormuz and the Musandam Peninsula, December 2018. The dual-blockade mechanism — IRGC controlling the Gulf of Oman exit since March 4, US Navy controlling the Arabian Sea entry since April 13, 2026 — means vessels require approval from both sides to transit. Photo: NASA GSFC / Public Domain

Goldman’s $90 Q4 Brent Forecast Is $18 Below Saudi Break-Even

April 27, 2026April 29, 2026
Energy & Oil

DHAHRAN — Goldman Sachs raised its fourth-quarter 2026 Brent crude forecast to $90 per barrel on Sunday, up from $83 two weeks

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Multiple VLCC supertankers loading crude oil at an offshore terminal in the Northern Persian Gulf

Saudi Oil Revenue Math Collapses as Brent Crashes 11% on Hormuz Opening

April 17, 2026April 19, 2026
Energy & Oil

DHAHRAN — Brent crude fell approximately 11% to $88 per barrel on April 17, 2026, after Iran’s foreign minister declared the Strait

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Map showing the East-West Crude Oil Pipeline (Petroline) route from Abqaiq in the Eastern Province to Yanbu on the Red Sea, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz

Saudi Arabia’s Pipeline Runs at Full Capacity. Yanbu’s Berths Do Not.

April 12, 2026April 13, 2026
Energy & Oil

DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia announced on April 12 that its East-West Pipeline has been restored to full 7-million-barrel-per-day pumping capacity — the

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