U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio faces a delicate mission this week pitching Washington’s Iran peace deal to Gulf Arab leaders who fear excessive concessions will strengthen Tehran and reshape the region’s security balance and oil flows.
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The legal, political and commercial challenges of unwinding restrictions could take years.
Four liquefied natural gas tankers controlled by Qatar were heading into the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, despite a fall in ship traffic after Iran announced that it had again closed the waterway over the weekend, shipping data showed.
State-backed Saudi developer Red Sea Global is taking over the troubled Sindalah island resort, its CEO confirmed for the first time, as the kingdom moves to salvage one of the sorest stumbles in its Vision 2030 plan.
Israel’s defense minister said its troops remain in position in Lebanon.
President Donald Trump has insisted that the deal he has reached with Iran is superior to the one that President Barack Obama sealed in 2015, while Trump’s critics say at this point he has gotten much less and given up much more to Tehran.
Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least five people, including a child, in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, health officials said.
At least five people were killed in Israeli air strikes and drone attacks in southern Lebanon on Saturday, Lebanese state media reported, just hours after a ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group took effect.
Emerging outlines of a deal between Washington and Tehran to end their war contain a stinging paradox: sweeteners to coax Iran into compliance may strengthen an adversarial force that the U.S. and its Western allies consider a terrorist organisation.
Say it quietly, but Gulf airlines are back in business.