The conflict is not only sapping oil revenue, but also Gulf states’ efforts to expand their economies beyond it.

Such harm could come in a number of ways. A strike on Kharg island has the clearest potential to cause a big, enormously ...

WHEN PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP announced a two-week ceasefire in the Gulf and “the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz”, energy traders breathed a sigh of relief. For almost six ...

Israel and the United States may have launched the war on Iran. But it is the Gulf Arab states that have borne the brunt of Tehran’s response. Since February 28, the Islamic Republic has rained down ...

The US and Israel’s war on Iran has cast a long shadow over the Gulf. It has placed many of the economies that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) regional grouping – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, ...

Recent days ⁠have seen the biggest flare-ups in fighting in and around the Strait of Hormuz since a ceasefire began a month ago.

Saudi Arabia and other Gulf allies are showing signs of a quiet but consequential shift in their posture toward Iran, as escalating attacks across the region are testing years of careful balancing ...

Gulf states tell US a ceasefire alone would not be enough Ability to 'weaponise' Strait of Hormuz must end, they say Gulf states want deal to cover missiles, drones, proxies They say any deal must ...

The U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran took a dangerous turn on March 18 with tit-for-tat strikes on critical energy infrastructure that amount to the most serious regional escalation since ...

Whatever the outcome of the Iran War, the Gulf states will lose their central position in the Middle East. What is unfolding between Israel and Iran is not a conventional regional escalation. It ...