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Weapons seized by the Coast Guard from a vessel in the Arabian Sea
BUSTED

U.S. Seized Hundreds of Houthi-Bound Illegal Arms

Coast Guard personnel boarded a ship in the Arabian Sea they say originated from Iran.

Amanda Yen

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JUST LIKE US

A Saudi Music Video’s Sick Trump Burn

An Arab world provocateur’s latest song goes under the niqab with a warning to U.S. women: Your president-elect isn’t all that different from the kingdom’s own oppressors.

Barbie Latza Nadeau

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Divine Right

Saudi King’s Daughter ‘Ordered’ Killing

The Saudi princess who allegedly ordered her bodyguard to kill a decorator has been identified as the king of Saudi Arabia’s daughter, Hassa.

Tom Sykes

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Search Engine

London’s Gold Car-Driving Arab Prince

Meet the very rich, very extravagant Turki Bin Abdullah, a rich young Saudi whose Instagram pictures and videos include shots of him posing with a pet cheetah in his car.

Tom Sykes

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#BeggingTheQuestion

Mideast Needs To Save Its Own Refugees

Muslim countries blame the West for turning away desperate migrants, but the Gulf States have taken in a total of zero Syrians.

Asra Q. Nomani

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Comedy of Terror

Another Nice Mess the Saudis Got Us Into

Washington is getting sucked deeper and deeper into the Yemen war, and there is no upside to its involvement.

Aaron David Miller

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Rising Son

The Inside Story of the Saudi Snub

Did the Saudi king slight Obama by not coming to Camp David this week? An insider says not exactly.

Christopher Dickey

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ALL AGAINST ALL

The Next Great Middle East War Begins

It’s a potentially apocalyptic fight between some of the closest U.S. allies and the country America is desperately trying to court. Will Washington really join in?

Christopher Dickey

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DANGER ZONE

Welcome to the New Terror Heartland

America’s ally in Yemen is gone. Its special forces have been evacuated. A country touted by the president as a counterterror ‘model’ is poised to be an ISIS and al Qaeda playland.

Tim Mak

Stay-at-Home

What ISIS Women Really Want

Girls can marry at 9 then stay veiled and house-bound the rest of their lives. Quilliam, the counter-terrorism organization, translates an ISIS “manifesto” for Arab women.

Charlie Winter

Gulf Chaos

U.S. Ally in Al Qaeda Fight Quits

Hours after striking a deal with Houthi rebels, the government of U.S. ally Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi quit—leaving the country set to fragment and al Qaeda to gain yet more power.

Jamie Dettmer

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