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As Iran destroyed energy facilities and infrastructure in all six of its Persian Gulf neighbors and blocks their shipments of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf states — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, ...

Israel and the United States may have launched the war on Iran. But it is the Gulf Arab states that have borne the brunt of Tehran’s response. Since February 28, the Islamic Republic has rained down ...

A Kashmiri farmer sprinkles fertilizer near a mustard field outside Srinagar in India-administered-Kashmir, on March 22, 2026. The war in the Gulf has disrupted global fertilizer supplies with the ...

The countries most affected by the Iran War need a seat at the table to create a durable agreement. Foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan met in Islamabad earlier this week ...

This issue is preventing our website from loading properly. Please review the following troubleshooting tips or contact us at [email protected]. Analysis: Will the Iran War Evaporate the Gulf’s AI ...

Zelensky’s Gulf tour suggests a shift from dependency to leverage, as Ukraine markets the defence capabilities that it has learned through war. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s swing through ...

This issue is preventing our website from loading properly. Please review the following troubleshooting tips or contact us at [email protected]. Report: Iran War Shatters South Asians’ Gulf Dreams ...

If the Gulf states want to help decide Iran’s post-war future, they will have to court the Trump administration and demonstrate their value yet again. The outcome of the war in Iran is still hard to ...

IN WAR, WHAT at first seems logical can, in hindsight, prove to have been foolhardy. Having repelled its Iraqi invaders in 1982, Iran spurned a ceasefire and pushed ahead with a counter-invasion.

Saudi Arabia and other Gulf allies are showing signs of a quiet but consequential shift in their posture toward Iran, as escalating attacks across the region are testing years of careful balancing ...

Gulf markets have diverged sharply since the Iran war started, with Oman and Saudi Arabia outperforming as Dubai has faltered. Oil price volatility and geopolitical turmoil are shaping investor ...