JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia has approximately 400 PAC-3 MSE interceptors remaining — 14% of its pre-war stockpile — and no new rounds
MoreTEHRAN — Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf branded a US-drafted memorandum of understanding as “Operation Fauxios” on May 7, publicly mocking
MoreRIYADH — Saudi Arabia informed the United States military that it could not use Prince Sultan Airbase or Saudi airspace to support
MoreNEOM — On April 15, Yasir Al-Rumayyan stood before investors and said the thing that nobody inside the Public Investment Fund had
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MorePARIS — Iran has struck two CMA CGM vessels in 17 days — escalating from a projectile hit on the 15,300-TEU Everglade
MoreDUBAI — A cruise missile struck the CMA CGM San Antonio, a 2,824-TEU Maltese-flagged containership en route to Mundra, India, during its
More{“content”: “ DHAHRAN u2014 Brent crude’s 9% single-session collapse on May 6 u2014 driven by a leaked one-page MOU framework that neither
MoreANKARA — Four foreign ministers, three formal meetings in ten weeks, one nuclear-armed signatory, and a combined 1.9 million troops under arms
MoreDHAHRAN — The memo of understanding being negotiated between Washington and Tehran offers a thirty-day window to resolve the conditions under which
MoreRIYADH — Abbas Araghchi flew to Beijing on Tuesday not to negotiate but to dictate. By the time Donald Trump steps onto
More{“content”: “ WASHINGTON u2014 The United States has offered Iran a one-page, 14-point memorandum of understanding that accepts what Washington spent three
MoreTEHRAN — Iran formally launched the Persian Gulf Strait Authority on May 5, 2026, a uniformed bureaucracy with a domain name (PGSA.ir),
MoreBEIJING — Wang Yi told Abbas Araghchi to reopen the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, and Iran’s foreign ministry, posting its own
MoreRIYADH — Mohammed bin Salman has reportedly offered the United States roughly $100 billion in direct war financing, full normalization with Israel,
MoreABU DHABI — Iranian forces struck the United Arab Emirates for the second consecutive day on May 5, launching 15 missiles and
More{“content”: “ RIYADH u2014 Saudi Arabia’s first-quarter budget deficit of SR125.7 billion, disclosed by the Ministry of Finance on May 5, consumed
MoreBEIJING — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi landed in Beijing on May 6 for his first face-to-face with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang
MoreWASHINGTON — Trump told NBC on May 4 that “complete dismantlement” of Iran’s nuclear programme is “all I’d accept” — and the
MoreTEHRAN — Iran’s “Hormuz first, nuclear later” proposal — formally embedded in the 14-point plan submitted to Washington on May 2 —
MoreWASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed on May 5 that
MoreFUJAIRAH — Iran struck the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone for the second consecutive day on May 5, shutting down the 922,000-barrel-per-day ADNOC
More{“content”: “ Saudi Arabia’s Economy Is Recovering. That Is the Problem. n RIYADH u2014 Saudi Arabia’s non-oil purchasing managers’ index rose to
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MoreTEHRAN — Abbas Araghchi’s statement on May 5 contained two propositions that Western correspondents treated as contradictory: Pakistan’s mediation is “making progress,”
MoreRIYADH — Saudi Arabia condemned “in the strongest terms” Iran’s ongoing strikes against the UAE on May 5, with Crown Prince Mohammed
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