DOHA — Two laden Qatar LNG tankers, the Al Daayen and the Rasheeda, are pushing toward the Hormuz exit right now —
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MUSCAT — US and Iranian mediators are circulating a two-phase, 45-day ceasefire framework — the first structured proposal since Steve Witkoff’s direct-talks
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DHAHRAN — The United States is bombing Iranian military infrastructure with B-2s while licensing the sale of Iranian crude whose revenues fund
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared on Truth Social early Easter Sunday that Tuesday would be “Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day,
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s non-oil private sector contracted in March for the first time since the COVID-19 lockdowns of August 2020, with
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MUSCAT — Oman and Iran held deputy foreign minister-level talks in Muscat on Saturday to draft the terms of a new Hormuz
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Pakistan Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar (left, facing camera) chairs a formal bilateral delegation meeting in 2025 —
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Table of Contents The Back-Channel: What MBS Asked For Did Saudi Arabia Deny It? The Public Posture: Ceasefire Calls and Diplomatic Choreography
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TEHRAN — Iran is not blockading the Strait of Hormuz. It is franchising it. The announcement on April 4 that “brotherly Iraq”
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WASHINGTON — Poland has publicly rejected a US request to transfer one of its two operational Patriot PAC-3 batteries to the Middle
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ISLAMABAD — The United States and Iran came within hours of holding their first direct meeting since the war began, and then
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ABU DHABI — UAE air defenses intercepted every incoming Iranian missile over the Ruwais Industrial Complex at 6:44 AM on Saturday, April
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia is pumping 7 million barrels per day through the East-West Pipeline to Yanbu, bypassing the closed Strait of
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KUWAIT CITY — Iranian drones struck the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation headquarters in the Shuwaikh Oil Sector Complex early on Saturday, April 5
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RIYADH — On April 2, 2026, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan held telephone calls with Russia’s Sergey Lavrov, China’s Wang
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RIYADH — President Donald Trump on Saturday shelved his April 6 ultimatum to reopen the Strait of Hormuz after Iran confirmed it
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RIYADH — Iran has blown up the only diplomatic exit that Saudi Arabia actually controlled. Islamabad’s mediation channel — assembled by Riyadh
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RIYADH — Saudi air defenses intercepted seven Iranian ballistic missiles and ten attack drones over the Riyadh region on the morning of
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia will host between 750,000 and two million Muslim pilgrims for Hajj 2026 while Iranian ballistic missiles and drones
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TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who told Al Jazeera on April 1 that “the trust level is at zero” with
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DUBAI — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed on April 2 that it struck “the data center and computing infrastructure of the
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DHAHRAN — Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf posted a question to X on April 4 that was not a question. “What
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MANAMA — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck the MSC Ishyka, a Liberian-flagged container ship, with a drone on April 4, claiming
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TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s statement on April 4 that “radioactive fallout will end life in GCC capitals, not Tehran”
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RIYADH — Iran does not need to hit Saudi Arabia to hurt it. Thirty-five days into the war, Tehran has discovered that
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