RIYADH — Saudi Arabia posted a $34 billion deficit in Q1 2026 — the largest quarterly budget shortfall in the kingdom’s history

RIYADH — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s directive to assess whether frozen Iranian assets can fund Gulf reconstruction and Iran’s stated precondition that

TEHRAN — Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, the standing joint operational command that coordinates both the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi arrived in Tehran on June 7, 2026, carrying not one letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi landed in Tehran on Saturday evening — his third trip to the Iranian capital in

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent directed his department on June 6, 2026, to use “all available authorities” to redirect frozen Iranian

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia entered its hundredth day of war having consumed three-quarters of its annual deficit allowance in a single quarter,

WASHINGTON — The US Treasury confirmed on June 6 that it is exploring the redirection of Iranian frozen assets to finance reconstruction

ST. PETERSBURG — Saudi Arabia’s energy minister stood on a stage in St. Petersburg this week as Vladimir Putin’s guest of honor,

MUSCAT — Iran formally rejected the Trump administration’s memorandum of understanding on June 6, 2026, and simultaneously submitted an alternative proposal through

JEDDAH — Iran filled roughly a third of its Hajj 2026 quota, dispatching approximately 30,000 pilgrims against an allocation of 87,550, and

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s president told Iran on live television that it is using his country as a bargaining chip in nuclear negotiations

VIENNA — On June 5, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told reporters that the United States and Iran appeared “pretty close” to

VIENNA — The International Atomic Energy Agency circulated its first assessment of Iran’s nuclear programme since the war began on Thursday, telling

BEIRUT — Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Naim Qassem did not just decline the June 4 Israel-Lebanon ceasefire. He called it “absurd, humiliating and insulting”