RIYADH — Twenty-five days into the most sustained aerial bombardment any Gulf state has faced in modern history, Saudi Arabia has intercepted
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Monday ordered approximately 2,000 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division to deploy to the Middle East, marking
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MANAMA — The second tanker war in the Strait of Hormuz has already surpassed the first in every measurable dimension. Twenty-five days
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LONDON — Britain has agreed to lead a multinational naval coalition tasked with clearing Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz and
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund entered the Iran war with $1.15 trillion in assets, a pipeline of megaproject IPOs, and
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RIYADH — Iran’s Red Crescent Society reported on 24 March that more than 82,000 civilian structures have been damaged or destroyed since
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WASHINGTON — The United States has sent Iran a 15-point plan to end the 25-day war, according to the New York Times,
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LONDON — The Strait of Hormuz did not close because Iran mined it, torpedoed a tanker, or deployed enough fast-attack craft to
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DUBAI — Iran has begun charging commercial vessels up to $2 million per voyage to transit the Strait of Hormuz, Bloomberg reported
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VIENNA — The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries was founded in Baghdad in September 1960 by five nations that believed collective
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RIYADH — Iran launched a fresh wave of missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Israel
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MANAMA — The Wall Street Journal reported on March 24 that videos show missiles used in attacks on Iran were launched from
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MANILA — The Philippines on Tuesday became the first country to formally declare a national energy emergency in response to the Iran
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RIYADH — For half a century, Saudi Arabia depended on Washington for security guarantees, on European capitals for diplomatic legitimacy, and on
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BEIRUT — Lebanon declared Iran’s ambassador Mohammad Reza Sheibani persona non grata on Tuesday and ordered him to leave the country within
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RIYADH — Twenty-four days into the Iran war, the conflict’s most reliable winner is not sitting in the Pentagon’s situation room or
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TEHRAN — Iran on Tuesday appointed Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, a veteran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander who served as deputy commander in
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RIYADH — The Iran war’s most devastating consequences are unfolding not in the Gulf but in cities most Western policymakers could not
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JEDDAH — The World Economic Forum on Monday postponed its Global Collaboration and Growth Meeting scheduled for April 22-23 in Jeddah, citing
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RIYADH — The conventional reading of the Iran war places Saudi Arabia among its victims. Houthi-launched ballistic missiles struck Riyadh and Jeddah.
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DUBAI — An oil tanker that was sent to a ship-breaking yard in Bangladesh five years ago has reappeared in the Strait
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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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