TEHRAN — Iran is converting the Strait of Hormuz from an international waterway into a sovereign toll road, complete with formal legislation,
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RIYADH — Gulf Arab states led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have told the United States that any agreement
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RIYADH — The Strait of Hormuz carries roughly 30 percent of the world’s seaborne fertilizer trade, and since February 28 that trade
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia Railways launched an international freight corridor on Wednesday linking the Kingdom’s Eastern Province ports to the Jordanian border,
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DHAHRAN — The attack that shut down Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura terminal on March 12 destroyed more than a loading dock. It
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is considering sending up to 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle East as the Iran war enters
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RIYADH — Iran launched forty-seven drones at Saudi Arabia on March 23. The next day, it launched fewer than half that number.
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RIYADH — An Iranian missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base south of Riyadh wounded at least ten American service
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s April 6 deadline to destroy Iran’s energy infrastructure is nine days away, and every scenario that follows
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RIYADH — Israel struck two of Iran’s nuclear facilities on Friday, hitting the Arak heavy water reactor complex and the Ardakan yellowcake
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RIYADH — On March 27, seventeen Iranian drones crossed into Saudi airspace over the Eastern Province and every one of them was
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco has shut down four of its largest offshore oil fields in the Persian Gulf, idling an estimated 2
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BEIJING — Four weeks into the most consequential Middle East conflict since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the conventional wisdom has settled
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{“content”: “ PARIS u2014 Group of Seven foreign ministers issued a joint statement on March 27 demanding an immediate end to attacks
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WASHINGTON — The American military commitment to Saudi Arabia has an expiration date that neither Riyadh nor Washington has honestly addressed. Twenty-eight
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WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance confronted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a tense phone call earlier this week, accusing the
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RIYADH — Iraq is about to decide the outcome of this war, and Saudi Arabia is not ready for the answer. When
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior announced on Thursday that all visit, Umrah, transit, and final exit visas expired since February
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia is sitting on $2.5 trillion in untapped mineral reserves, and the state-owned mining giant Ma’aden has just announced
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JEDDAH — Ukraine and Saudi Arabia signed a defense cooperation agreement on Friday during a surprise visit by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to
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RIYADH — The war in Iran will end. Whether it ends next week through the Witkoff fifteen-point framework floated on March 26,
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Jordan issued a joint declaration on Wednesday invoking Article 51
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THE HAGUE — Twenty-eight days into the most consequential military confrontation since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, neither the United States nor
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JEDDAH — China’s state-owned shipping giant COSCO resumed commercial deliveries to the Persian Gulf on March 25, making it the first major
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RIYADH — Twenty-eight days into the Iran war, global attention remains locked on oil prices, missile trajectories, and the geopolitics of the
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