Saudi Arabia

Belfast boxer made to pay for losing early and late rounds in a competitive super welterweight title fight

Iran-backed Houthis targeting kingdom, which has been diverting oil to skirt Tehran’s Strait of Hormuz blockade

Trump says Iran would be accountable for any further attacks by Yemen’s Houthi fighters amid widening conflict

UN’s António Guterres says Middle East being pushed to ‘edge of the unimaginable’ amid mounting fears over conflict’s trajectory

Nuclear experts say Trump’s deal creates a destabilising situation that could raise the risk of nuclear war

Deal does not include so-called Additional Protocol allowing United Nations atomic agency to ‌carry ‌out ​snap inspections

Washington continues attacks on Gulf nation with Tehran launching strikes at US sites in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan

A successful effort to ‌shut the Bab el-Mandeb Strait would strike at one of the world’s most important oil shipping routes

Move could lead to further disruption of international shipping and increases in energy prices

Sixth day of fighting threatens to turn into all-out war and casts serious doubt on peace deal struck last month

Qatari negotiators meeting ⁠officials in Iran seeking to de-escalate renewed tensions after attacks on vessels in Strait of Hormuz

Trip follows Monday’s meeting with Qatari prime minister

Israeli and Lebanese officials deny any Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon despite US statement

Marcelo Bielsa’s Uruguay find Saudi Arabia hard to beat

However Trump chooses to sell it, the deal that he has now struck reflects the failure of the military option

Shamrock Rovers defender Pico looks to keep dream going with Cape Verde

From UAE to Bahrain: We want to hear from Irish emigrants about the impact on life and your future abroad

Oil futures markets are sanguine, but history shows expectations have often been disappointed

A report claims vulnerable workers injured in Saudi Arabia – including one who says his legs were crushed – received no compensation

Tehran accuses US president of planning to restart war, threatens to retaliate for any strikes with attacks beyond Middle East

Mediator Pakistan says both sides ‘keep changing their goalposts’ and ‘we don’t have much time’

Gulf states have been grappling with how to deter Iran after the war made clear the limits of US security guarantees

Iran war now an international hostage situation where UAE is the hostage, Iran the hostage-taker, and US will have to pay the ransom

Four years ago, McDowell was one of the more bullish voices in support of the tour as Saudi Arabia turbocharged its sportswashing enterprise

Saudi Arabia stopped US military from using its bases or airspace to carry out operation top open Strait of Hormuz

The controversial group have had a year of a kind that few artists will ever experience. They’re determined to stand their ground as they release their album Fenian

Hopefully, this vulgar exercise in sportswashing will give others second thoughts

Developed countries could help by strengthening co-operation with developing ones and ensuring their full participation in global trade

The breakaway golf league was little more than a sportswashing project and now it looks like it has outlived its usefulness

Neither Iranian nor US diplomats present – an indication of divide remaining between opposing sides

Opposition says Government’s €250m package aimed at reducing conflict’s effect on fuel prices and cost of living is one of ‘half measures’

Gulf states’ reliance on jets to battle waves of inexpensive Shaheds is testing their finances, pilots and planes

Oman remains the sole member of the six-member Gulf Co-operation Council to condemn the war on Iran

While oil may flow through Strait of Hormuz once conflict ends, damage to production facilities will take years to repair

Tehran says it is open to negotiating with countries seeking safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz

Behind Trump’s erratic policies there is one common thread: to check China’s rise

Millions of barrels of oil and shipments of gas are being held up at major shipping route following outbreak of war

Saudi Arabia also targeted; major oil supplier warns of catastrophic implications from Strait of Hormuz closure

The world’s biggest ‘football reporter’ reveals the value of saying nothing

Move could lead to a further escalation of the war given Donald Trump’s opposition to candidate