The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow, strategically vital waterway that carries a significant portion of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas, making it the most important energy chokepoint globally.

Iranian officials have threatened to mine the waterway, which is a key shipping route for oil and gas. By Helene Cooper Eric Schmitt and John Ismay One way that Iran could potentially retaliate for ...

Shortly after the historic SCO in Tianjin, where the world order was challenged by the grandeur of Xi Jinping's event, tensions continued in the South China Sea, a region of tensions, face-offs and ...

While there have been no major disruptions to the global oil supply so far, the attacks on Iran — by Israel and then the US — have rattled investors, sending oil futures soaring by around 10% since ...

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