Thousands of civilian sailors have been stranded for more than a month in waters surrounded by a conflict zone because of the ...

A global fertilizer shortage due to the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz could trigger not just economic but also ...

Effective shutdown of key waterway could lead to permanent changes in how shipping industry does business.

The Iran war will accelerate the region’s economic transformation.

The byproduct of desalination, highly concentrated brine, is typically discharged back into the ocean, where it can harm ...

Bob Bowker is the former Australian ambassador to Jordan and Egypt, and also had DFAT postings in Saudi Arabia, Syria and Lebanon. When the US-Israeli war on Iran finally ends, the Middle East will be ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Michael Christopher Low, University of Utah (THE CONVERSATION) Saudi Arabia, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iran’s defence council has threatened to deploy naval mines across the “entire Persian Gulf” if a land invasion happens. The ...

Three more foreign vessels were struck off the coast of Iraq and the United Arab Emirates overnight, authorities said. The latest incidents in or near the Strait of Hormuz come shortly after Iran ...

Iran attacked commercial ships Wednesday across the Persian Gulf and targeted Dubai International Airport, escalating a campaign of squeezing the energy-rich region as global energy concerns mounted, ...

As missiles and drones curtail energy production across the Persian Gulf, analysts warn that water, not oil, may be the resource most at risk in the energy-rich but arid region. On Sunday, Bahrain ...

Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said Thursday that Tehran would continue using the Strait of Hormuz as leverage ...