TEHRAN — Iran rejected the US-brokered Lebanon ceasefire as a stand-alone achievement on April 17 and demanded a simultaneous end to fighting

$CO The internal contradictions of the three-page MOU — including the ambiguity that allows Trump to claim Iranian agreement while Tehran’s foreign

JEDDAH — Indonesia’s advance Hajj officials departed for Saudi Arabia on Thursday as foreign ministers from Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt

Saudi Arabia Did Not Go to Paris RIYADH — Approximately thirty nations convened at the Élysée Palace on Thursday for a summit

TEHRAN — Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has done what no sitting Iranian president has done during wartime: he named the generals wrecking

LONDON — The April 17 Paris summit on the Strait of Hormuz produced something its forty-one participating nations did not advertise and

$CO The question of whether Iran formally agreed to the MOU’s core terms — or merely acknowledged a document it intends to

The Custodian’s Trap: 1.2 Million Pilgrims, 400 Interceptors, and the Identity That Makes Cancellation Impossible JEDDAH — The first pilgrims arriving for

RIYADH — The United States Navy has claimed the right to board, search, and seize vessels linked to Iran “regardless of location”

JEDDAH — At 5 PM Eastern Standard Time on April 16, Donald Trump announced a ten-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, the

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani officials announced a “major breakthrough” on Iran’s nuclear programme on April 16, 2026, with Army Chief Asim Munir leading

JEDDAH — For two hours on April 16, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sat across from Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Jeddah

JEDDAH — On April 15, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Jeddah to collect $3 billion in fresh Saudi financing and an

TEHRAN — Pakistan’s Field Marshal Asim Munir landed in Tehran on April 15, 2026, carrying what Al Jazeera described as “a new

RIYADH — The IRGC told the world on April 9 that it had “absolutely not launched any projectiles towards any country” since