RIYADH — The most consequential weapon deployed in the Iran war is not a ballistic missile, a Shahed drone, or a Patriot
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LONDON — Britain announced on Monday that it is deploying short-range air defense systems to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain, and distributing
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RIYADH — Eight years ago, Saudi Arabia had zero cinemas, zero public concerts, and a religious police force that shut down restaurants
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have taken concrete steps toward becoming active participants in the war against Iran,
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RIYADH — Donald Trump has given himself sixteen days to end the largest military conflict in the Middle East since the 2003
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ISLAMABAD — Mediating countries led by Pakistan are pressing to convene the first face-to-face meeting between American and Iranian officials since the
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TEHRAN — Mojtaba Khamenei became Iran’s third supreme leader on 9 March 2026, installed by a coerced Assembly of Experts less than
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WASHINGTON — Three weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the gap between what artificial intelligence promised and what the battlefield delivered has become
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WASHINGTON — Ten anonymous cryptocurrency wallets appeared on the prediction market platform Polymarket on Sunday, wagering a combined $160,000 that the United
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul stock exchange reopens on Tuesday after an eight-day Eid al-Fitr holiday during which the Iran war escalated
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NEW YORK — Oil prices crashed by as much as 13 percent on Monday in the largest single-day decline since the Iran
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RIYADH — Somewhere in the vast inventory databases of the United States military, a number is shrinking that should terrify policymakers in
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday proposed that the United States and Iran could jointly control the Strait of Hormuz, the
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BUSHEHR — A projectile struck a structure three hundred and fifty metres from the only operating nuclear reactor on the Persian Gulf
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VIENNA — The heads of the International Atomic Energy Agency and Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom held an emergency phone call on
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RIYADH — Two ballistic missiles streaked toward the Saudi capital on March 23, 2026 — the same day Donald Trump announced “very
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HOUSTON — Saudi Aramco Chief Executive Amin Nasser has withdrawn from CERAWeek, the world’s premier energy conference, choosing to remain in Riyadh
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WASHINGTON — Iran’s parliament speaker declared on 22 March 2026 that every financial institution holding United States Treasury bonds is a legitimate
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RIYADH — The most dangerous moment for Saudi Arabia in the 24-day-old Iran war is not another barrage of ballistic missiles over
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Sunday ordered the Pentagon to postpone all military strikes against Iran’s power plants and energy infrastructure
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RIYADH — Twenty-four days into a war that has sent more than a thousand Iranian drones and four hundred ballistic missiles toward
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PARIS — The International Energy Agency declared on Sunday that more than 40 energy assets across nine countries in the Middle East
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco has notified Asian term customers that they will receive reduced crude oil volumes for April loadings, marking the
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RIYADH — The alliances Mohammed bin Salman spent a decade constructing were designed for a world that no longer exists. The Beijing-brokered
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BEIRUT — Israeli forces destroyed the Qasmiyeh Bridge and at least two other crossings over the Litani River in southern Lebanon on
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