TEHRAN — Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi offered to mediate between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis on October 11, then repeated the
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DHAHRAN — Aramco’s Dhahran headquarters, home to the Oil Supply Planning and Scheduling Center that coordinates the movement of 15 million barrels
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RIYADH — The second EU-GCC summit was due to open here on 24 October, with the Future Investment Initiative following two days
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DHAHRAN — Brent crude touched $114.47 per barrel at 0639 GMT on Wednesday, its highest level since May, after Houthis claimed strikes
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WASHINGTON — The United States is pulling diplomats and military personnel out of the Gulf in a pattern that twice before preceded
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia’s government raised its 2026 budget deficit projection to SAR 245 billion ($65.3 billion), 48% above the original figure,
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ISLAMABAD — Sixteen Pakistani JF-17 fighter jets sit at King Abdulaziz Air Base in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province, parked there since April
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Correction, October 24, 2026: An earlier version of this article said in its headline that this was Riyadh’s 4th alert of October;
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Correction, October 24, 2026: An earlier version of this article said Australia told its citizens to “stockpile” food, water and medication and
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NEW YORK — The United Nations Security Council adopted presidential statement S/PRST/2026/4 on October 15, condemning Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia in
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RIYADH — The Houthis claimed on October 22 to have struck the Saudi Defense Ministry in Riyadh, the first time the group
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RIYADH — Iran has formally declared a shift to an “offensive and asymmetrical” military doctrine, moving from a posture built on proxy
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed on Thursday that seven oil tankers were damaged overnight in and around the Strait
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RIYADH — On the same day that a Houthi missile killed one person and injured eight at King Fahd Airport in Dammam,
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LONDON — Admiral Brad Cooper declared on 27 August that US forces had cleared Iranian sea mines from the internationally recognised shipping
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CAIRO — President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi asked Egypt’s parliament on 17 October to authorize the deployment of armed forces to Saudi Arabia,
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Correction, October 23, 2026: This article first said the October 21 attack killed one person, GACA’s initial figure; GACA later raised the
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WASHINGTON — The US State Department on October 21 ordered non-emergency US government employees and their family members to leave Saudi Arabia
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DHAHRAN — Saudi air defenses intercepted the drone. The interception worked exactly as designed. Two foreign workers died anyway, killed by falling
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ADEN — Houthi forces have occupied Mayyun Island — the 13-square-kilometre volcanic outcrop that divides the Bab el-Mandeb Strait into two shipping
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia reopened King Khalid International Airport to limited commercial traffic on Wednesday, the same morning the Saudi-led coalition announced
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DOHA — On October 19, Qatar’s Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani gave a wide-ranging address at the Global
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RIYADH — The Saudi-led coalition intercepted four or five drones over Saudi Arabia on 21 October, with at least one heading for
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WASHINGTON — The US 5th Fleet headquarters sits in Bahrain, but its four Avenger-class minesweepers left in January 2026, weeks before American
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DUBAI — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has established a mine blockade of the Strait of Hormuz that has cut daily tanker
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