Saudi officials call it an 'attempted attack' with minor damage, but witnesses saw shattered glass across several floors of the 34-storey skyscraper, a sharp escalation in the renewed Yemen war.
WatchAn excerpt from journalist Matthew Cole's new book alleges Russian hackers watched Kushner's iPhone and that Saudi and Emirati leaders funded accounts tied to him. Kushner, his lawyer and the White House all deny it.
WatchThe terminal for domestic flights was struck Sunday, the fourth hit on King Khalid International in five days, as the Houthis claim new attacks on Aramco sites and a second airport.
WatchSaudi authorities say the dead include a U.S. citizen, the deadliest attack on a Gulf Arab state since the Iran war began. Trump says he will decide quickly whether to join strikes on the Houthis.
Presidential Leadership Council chief Rashad al-Alimi announced operations Sunday to retake territory. Nearly 200,000 people have been displaced since early September.
WatchTwo off-duty pilots among the 174 passengers helped take control of Flight FZ1073, which landed safely in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. The jet had transmitted both emergency and hijacking codes.
Macron says the soldiers and radar will protect the Red Sea terminal of the pipeline Saudi Arabia now depends on while Hormuz is shut, after new Houthi missile and drone attacks.
WatchThe Saudi-led coalition said it also thwarted attacks on Yanbu, Taif, Bisha and Farasan. The Houthis claim they hit 'sensitive sites' in the capital and set 'massive fires' at Aramco facilities. Days earlier, Riyadh accused them of targeting Mecca, and the first civilian was killed inside the kingdom.
Congress has 30 days to block the deal. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi said the sale could put 'the crown jewels of American military technology within reach of the Chinese Communist Party.' The kingdom is under daily Houthi attack and just lost its East-West pipeline.
WatchCNN geolocated the wreckage to Marib. Saudi Arabia is running low on interceptors and has asked France, Britain, Pakistan and Egypt for help. Tehran's security chief says there will be no talks until Iran's conditions are met.
Air-raid alerts sounded in Islam's holiest city for the first time in the war. Brent crude is above $100, a key Saudi pipeline has reportedly been shut for weeks, and the U.S. told Americans to reconsider travel to the kingdom.
WatchNine ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday. Traders now put the odds of a Fed rate hike on Wednesday above 90%, and the Nasdaq 100 fell 1.3% as AI stocks sold off on top of the oil shock.
WatchGovernment forces withdrew from the island that splits the Bab el-Mandeb into two shipping lanes, ending an 18-hour blitz that also took Zuqar, Dhubab and Murad. Oil is above $100 and U.S. diesel hit a record $6.05.
The East-West pipeline that let the kingdom pump more than 5 million barrels a day to the Red Sea is closed after a drone attack traced to Iraqi territory, while the Houthis now hold every island in the Bab el-Mandeb and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is pressing Trump to strike them.
Government forces called their retreat a 'tactical withdrawal.' Bab al-Mandeb is 18 miles wide at its narrowest, and one analyst says artillery alone could close it.
Saturday's clashes killed more than 60, a day after the deadliest fighting in years. A missile hit a bus between Taiz and Aden, killing six civilians.
The strike hit a plant that processes 400,000 barrels of crude a day. A separate Houthi barrage on the Yemeni port of Mocha killed seven people.
The Mecca Joint Deterrence Agreement binds NATO's second-largest military, the world's top oil exporter and the only Muslim state with nuclear weapons — after nearly a year of quiet negotiation.
WatchA Saudi official told CNN the kingdom has tracked meetings between Iraqi militiamen, Houthi operatives and Iran's Revolutionary Guard, along with the movement of drones and missiles. The warning came a day after the Houthis hit a Saudi oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden.
The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement binds an oil power, a nuclear-armed state and NATO's second-largest military — signed as the Iran war reshapes the region.
It is the sharpest escalation since the de facto truce of April 2022. A Houthi commander claimed 'hundreds' of casualties and told followers to strike Saudi positions 'wherever they may be.'
Representatives from 43 of 51 invited countries met in Riyadh, but only 14 signed. The UAE and Oman stayed out.
WatchCENTCOM says every Iranian missile launched at 5:45 p.m. ET Tuesday was intercepted. Hours later, American and Saudi fighter jets struck weapons sites across eastern Iraq, shattering a two-day lull in a war that had appeared to be cooling.
Reuters verified video of a column of smoke over the Red Sea refinery. Saudi air defenses shot down two ballistic missiles aimed at Yanbu, and output at one plant has already been cut.
The 30-year civilian agreement, signed alongside a sale of F-35 jets, omits the 'gold standard' safeguards barring enrichment — drawing warnings that it hands Riyadh a potential pathway to the bomb even as the U.S. wages war to end Iran's program.
The Iran-aligned group said it would bar Saudi ships from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait "an eye for an eye," opening a dangerous new front in the U.S.-Iran war and widening the threat to global energy supplies.
Iran alone executed at least 2,159 people in 2025 — more than double 2024 — with nearly half of all known killings worldwide carried out for nonviolent drug offenses.
A Paris investigating judge from the crimes-against-humanity unit will now formally probe whether Mohammed bin Salman can be charged with torture and enforced disappearance over the 2018 murder of the Washington Post journalist, in the first European inquiry to target the de facto Saudi ruler.
Competition between Gulf powers intensifies over energy quotas and regional conflicts, with officials struggling to maintain facade of cooperation.
Justice Department documents reveal how convicted sex trafficker used Middle East connections to acquire tapestries from Islam's holiest shrine for unusual building.
A decade after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman unveiled his ambitious transformation program, the kingdom faces financial strains and is reassessing its trajectory.
Iranian projectiles struck targets across the Gulf on Monday night as Tehran widened its regional campaign; 15 Americans were injured at Kuwait's Ali Al Salem base and GCC states have now collectively halted 7.5 million barrels a day of crude output.
WatchSix ballistic missiles and 29 drones struck Prince Sultan Air Base, wounding 12 service members and destroying the Air Force's most advanced airborne radar aircraft for the first time in combat history.
Five of the wounded are in serious condition after an Iranian missile or drone hit the base 75 miles southeast of Riyadh, as Houthi rebels simultaneously fired ballistic missiles at Israel for the first time, marking a dramatic single-day escalation.
The combined missile and drone attack represents one of the most serious breaches of American air defenses since the monthlong war with Iran began.
Riyadh reversed its longstanding position on hosting U.S. strikes against Iran, while the UAE shut down Iranian-linked institutions in Dubai and froze assets — moves analysts say presage formal Gulf entry into the conflict.
Riyadh ordered five Iranian diplomats to leave after repeated Iranian missile attacks struck near Saudi oil facilities — shattering the China-brokered diplomatic rapprochement in the most serious Saudi-Iranian rupture in years.