RIYADH — The missiles and drones that have struck Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Jordan since February 28
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RIYADH — Seventeen days into Iran’s retaliatory drone and missile campaign against Gulf states, the conflict’s civilian toll has fallen disproportionately on
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RIYADH — Seventeen days into the Iran war, the global conversation remains fixated on oil prices, missile trajectories, and the geopolitics of
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WASHINGTON — The United States is allowing Iranian oil tankers to transit the Strait of Hormuz even as the two countries remain
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RIYADH — On April 17, 2025, Prince Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud walked into a Tehran reception hall and delivered
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump spent the weekend working the phones to assemble a multinational naval coalition to reopen the Strait of
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia called Iran a “sister nation” and condemned American-Israeli strikes against it in June 2025. Nine months later, the
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RIYADH — United States fighter jets struck military facilities near Iran’s Chabahar Free Trade Zone on Monday, according to Voice of America
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LONDON — The world’s attention is fixed on oil. Brent crude at $102. Strategic reserves dwindling. Pipelines running at capacity. But seventeen
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump warned NATO allies of a “very bad future” if they failed to assist American forces in reopening
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RIYADH — The Iran war has inflicted more economic damage on Gulf states in seventeen days than the entire Covid-19 pandemic did
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BEIRUT — Israeli armored forces crossed into southern Lebanon on Monday in what the Israel Defense Forces called “limited and targeted ground
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DHAHRAN — The International Energy Agency announced on March 11 the largest coordinated release of emergency oil reserves in history — 400
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BRUSSELS — European Union energy ministers gathered in Brussels on March 16 for an emergency session to confront the worst energy price
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RIYADH — The Iran war has cost the United States between $12 billion and $16.5 billion in its first seventeen days, according
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DUBAI — An Iranian drone struck a fuel storage tank near Dubai International Airport early on Monday, igniting a fire that forced
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RIYADH — Sixteen days into the Iran war, Saudi Arabia has intercepted more than 300 drones and dozens of ballistic missiles at
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RIYADH — Israel informed the United States this week that it is running critically low on ballistic missile interceptors, according to U.S.
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DHAHRAN — The conventional wisdom about Saudi Arabia’s Yanbu terminal goes something like this: the Kingdom is trapped. With the Strait of
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RIYADH — Iran’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia denied on Saturday that Tehran was responsible for attacks on the Kingdom’s oil infrastructure, telling
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RIYADH — President Donald Trump called on six nations to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz on March 14, promising a
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LONDON — Britain has deployed RAF Typhoon fighter jets and F-35 stealth aircraft to defend Gulf Cooperation Council states against Iranian drone
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MAKKAH — On the night of March 16, 2026, as hundreds of thousands of worshippers packed the Grand Mosque for Laylat al-Qadr
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told NBC News on Saturday that Iran “wants to make a deal” to end the war launched
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DHAHRAN — Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has achieved in sixteen days what a decade of BRICS summits, petroyuan proposals,
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