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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RIYADH — Operation Maritime Shield, the G7-coordinated naval escort initiative announced on March 10, will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz in
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia on Wednesday launched emergency logistics corridors to redirect container shipping and commercial cargo from the war-disrupted Persian Gulf
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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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PARIS — The International Energy Agency confirmed on Wednesday what oil traders, shipping executives, and Gulf energy ministers have feared since Iranian
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has spent more than $80 billion on air defense systems over the past decade, assembling one of the
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BEIRUT — Hezbollah fired approximately 200 rockets and 20 drones at northern Israel on Wednesday evening in what the Israeli military described
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ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates absorbed more Iranian ordnance in the first week of the 2026 Iran war than any
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RIYADH — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned on Wednesday that it would destroy oil and gas infrastructure across the Gulf if
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RIYADH — A ceasefire in the Iran war will not end Saudi Arabia’s crisis. The missiles will stop, the air raid sirens
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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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BASRA — Iraq suspended operations at its southern oil export terminals on Thursday after Iranian drone boats struck two foreign tankers in
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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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MANAMA — Iranian missiles struck a fuel storage facility on Bahrain’s Muharraq Island early on Thursday, igniting a fire that sent thick
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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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Thirteen days into the US-Israeli war on Iran, the conflict is reshaping the Middle East faster than diplomats can respond. Commercial shipping
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