The price of oil has hit a six-week high amid fears over the escalating conflict in the Middle East. The market value of the benchmark Brent crude increased to almost $80 (£61) a barrel on Monday ...

SINGAPORE - Developments in the Middle East have thrown up several hard lessons for Asian countries, including the point that the use of force to settle scores seems to be an acceptable course of ...

WASHINGTON—As Israel prepares a retaliatory strike against Iran, the Biden administration increasingly resembles a spectator, with limited insight into what its closest Middle East ally is ...

With the war in Gaza still ongoing, fears of an all-out regional conflict in the Middle East remain high. How big a danger is this threat of further escalation? For BBC InDepth, we asked a range ...

But so far those efforts have failed - and the Middle East stands closer than ever to all-out war. Here’s how the last week played out. Friday evening: Nasrallah is assassinated. As the sun set ...

HOUSTON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Oil prices surged on Thursday as concerns mounted that a widening regional conflict in the Middle East could disrupt global crude flows. Brent crude futures settled up $ ...

“The serious crisis in the Middle East has emboldened China and allowed them to test the Americans further in the Indo-Pacific region,” said Collin Koh, a maritime security expert at the ...

Missiles are being fired in the Middle East. Missiles are being fired in the eastern Mediterranean. Both of these statements are true, but one of them makes the conflict seem quite far away ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The conflict in the Middle East has been going on for decades, and everything is heightened as the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel nears along with Iran ...

Iran’s ballistic missile strikes on Israel on October 1 have raised fears of an all-out war in the Middle East. The deepening spiral of bloodshed began on September 17 and 18 with the detonation ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. In late September, Qatari Minster of Transport Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti traveled to Beijing for the 2024 Global Sustainable Transport ...