All eyes are now on the Strait of Hormuz, a 90-mile strip critical to global oil prices.

Some oil tankers are rerouting, pausing, or avoiding the Strait of Hormuz amid escalating Middle East tensions and fresh U.S. strikes on Iran, raising fears of a global oil supply shock.

Global markets have appeared to take the U.S. strike against nuclear targets in Iran in stride. The price of oil initially ...

Ahram Online provides live coverage of the unfolding military confrontation between Israel and Iran as the two sides have ...

Officials from the UK and European Union are pushing for diplomacy as Iran mulls closing the Strait of Hormuz in response to ...

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has urged China to persuade Iran to keep the Strait of Hormuz in operation in wake of Trump ...

Amid rising tensions in the Middle East and growing US pressure on Iran, the decades-long stability of the Strait of Hormuz—a vital artery for global oil shipments—is under threat. Here are the top ...

Wall Street strategists have mostly focused on what could go wrong for global markets if the conflict with Iran were to escalate, or if Tehran were to take a dramatic step like, say, closing the ...

Preventing Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon is a “good thing” for the UK, Downing Street said, as it declined to comment on ...