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August 9, 2026 1:09 PM

Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan sign trilateral defence pact

For the first time, Turkiye's defence-industrial base, Pakistan's nuclear-deterrence and Saudi Arabia's financial muscle fuse into a single military bloc The geopolitical shift fundamentally rewrites security-architecture from the Mediterranean to S...

August 7, 2026 10:16 AM

Trump’s Iran dilemma: He’s stuck in war with no exit in sight

With President Donald Trump’s war against Iran now in its sixth month, this week's flurry of threats and diplomacy has underscored the ever-tighter bind he finds himself in as he tries to extricate the U.S. from an unpopular conflict he originally ...

August 7, 2026 12:51 AM

Trump’s Iran dilemma: He’s stuck in war with no exit in sight

With President Donald Trump’s war against Iran now in its sixth month, this week's flurry of threats and diplomacy has underscored the ever-tighter bind he finds himself in as he tries to extricate the U.S. from an unpopular conflict he originally ...

August 5, 2026 10:39 PM

Trump says US held ‘all-day negotiation’ with Iran on Tuesday

U.S. President Donald Trump said there was an "all-day negotiation" on Tuesday with Iran, characterizing the talks positively while also threatening to hit Iran "really hard" if a deal with Tehran was not reached. DETAILS AND QUOTES: "They had an a...

August 5, 2026 11:16 AM

US and Iran having ‘very good discussions’, Trump says

U.S. President Donald Trump said his administration had "very good discussions" with Iran during all-day negotiations on Tuesday, fuelling expectations of an imminent end to the five-month conflict. Oil prices fell and stocks jumped in Asian trade o...

August 5, 2026 12:58 AM

Qatar says progress made toward US-Iran talks on ending war

Qatar said on Tuesday mediators were making progress in efforts to end the U.S.-Iran war, driving oil prices lower, although Tehran has denied President Donald Trump's assertion that talks are already under way. Benchmark Brent crude fell more than ...

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