The ship, a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker named Talara, is not the first ship the IRGC has hijacked, but it had stepped ...

Iran long has threatened to close off the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20% of all oil ...

Middle Eastern oil that loads outside the Persian Gulf and at least one Malaysian grade are suddenly more popular with Asian buyers as the Israel-Iran conflict threatens to imperil the passage of ...

Iran's Revolutionary Guard forces have reportedly seized an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz in the first such interdiction in months.

Iran’s war room chief has stepped up inspections of Iran’s southern islands and naval installations in the Persian Gulf, underscoring Tehran’s readiness to counter any potential aggression amid rising ...

A narrow passage of water called the Strait of Hormuz is the primary route for Middle Eastern countries shipping oil and petroleum products from the Persian Gulf to the rest of the world. Iran has ...

A growing number of cargo ships are said to be steering clear of the Strait of Hormuz, the vital artery for global oil and gas shipments, as tensions spike in the Middle East following US airstrikes ...

The United Arab Emirates demonstrated this week that it does not live by oil alone, as the Persian Gulf nation fired up the world's largest concentrated solar power plant. Masdar, a renewable energy ...

A cyclone expected to be the strongest storm ever recorded in the Arabian Peninsula churned toward the oil-rich Gulf on Tuesday, forcing thousands of residents of Oman's coastal towns to flee their ...

Considered the largest city building project in the world, this mega city is located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia on the Persian Gulf, right in the middle of the desert. Known widely as the ...

A mineral-rights deal that the Trump administration says will make the U.S. vested in Ukraine’s defense has an instructive historical precedent in Washington’s unofficial oil-for-security pact with ...

Even terrorists have to be paid and there is so much oil wealth in the Persian Gulf that enough of it leaks to Islamic terrorist groups to keep the Houthis going. These lessons were learned by 18th ...