DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia asked for the Strait of Hormuz to be opened, and Iran obliged — by installing a tollbooth. The
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco’s May Official Selling Price for Arab Light crude to Asia, set at a record +$19.50 per barrel above
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TEHRAN — Iran’s president stood in front of the man who runs the Supreme Leader’s intelligence directorate and told him, on record,
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KUWAIT CITY — Iranian drones struck Kuwait’s largest oil refinery, power stations, and water desalination plants on Tuesday morning — hours after
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The ceasefire is real. The agreement behind it may not be. At 6:32 p.m. Eastern on April 7, less than ninety minutes
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The guns stopped at 2:02 a.m. Tehran time. Forty days after the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury with the
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DHAHRAN — Hours after Iran’s Supreme National Security Council announced it would honor a ceasefire, an IRGC drone struck a pumping station
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TEHRAN — Explosions struck Iran’s Lavan Island oil refinery and Sirri Island crude export facilities at approximately 06:30 GMT on April 8,
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ISLAMABAD — Iran’s ten-point peace plan, published through the SNSC-affiliated Nour News agency on April 8, demands the withdrawal of all US
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Supreme National Security Council accepted a two-week ceasefire on April 7, crediting the “guidance” of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei,
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RIYADH — SABIC told the Saudi stock exchange on Tuesday that it cannot estimate when its Jubail plants will resume production, warning
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RIYADH — For 35 days, Mohammed bin Salman lobbied Donald Trump to destroy Iran’s military capacity, urged him to send ground troops
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DUBAI — Iran permitted between 15 and 20 vessels to transit the Strait of Hormuz in the first 24 hours after the
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UNITED NATIONS — Russia and China vetoed the United Nations Security Council resolution on the Strait of Hormuz on April 7, killing
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DHAHRAN — The United States struck more than 50 military targets on Kharg Island on April 7, the second systematic destruction of
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JEDDAH — Approximately 3,200 commercial vessels and 20,000 seafarers remain trapped in Gulf waters west of the Strait of Hormuz, caught inside
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IRGC Dezful (front) and Zolfaqar Basir (rear) ballistic missiles on a launch vehicle at an IRGC Aerospace Force exhibition in Tehran. The
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RIYADH — The Public Investment Fund’s 2026-2030 strategy, formally published this spring, does what no Saudi official has been willing to say
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DHAHRAN — Iranian ballistic missile debris struck SABIC’s petrochemical complex at Jubail Industrial City on April 7, igniting a fire at the
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DHAHRAN — The United States has struck Kharg Island twice in thirty-six days. Both times it left the oil terminals standing. The
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defense on Monday released its first cumulative air defense tally since the Iran war began, reporting
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UNITED NATIONS — Bahrain’s ambassador will walk into the Security Council at 16:00 UTC today knowing Russia is going to veto his
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei broke a 26-day public silence on the morning of April 7 with a written statement
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TEHRAN — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is tonight the sole functioning command authority in Iran, operating without civilian oversight or constitutional
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia shut the King Fahd Causeway early Tuesday, severing the only road between the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain for
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