After the Iran war, the region has no good options.

MEI Senior Fellow Ziad Daoud provides a comprehensive analysis of rentierism in the Middle East, documenting how rent-based economies are common across resource-rich and resource-poor states, and expl...

Iraq is offering its term buyers huge discounts for crude loaded this month, but tankers will have to transit the Strait of Hormuz to collect the barrels deep inside the Persian Gulf just as hostiliti...

Oil prices will remain high and the cost of borrowing will go up as the conflict continues.

The US and Iran exchanged fire in a flareup of violence on Monday that also drew in the United Arab Emirates, prompting calls for renewed strikes on Iranian targets and casting doubt on the fate of a ...

The United Arab Emirates signaled its currency swap talks with the US were about joining a small club with access to Federal Reserve liquidity lines rather than a need for external financing.

Major OPEC+ nations agreed a modest and symbolic increase in their June production quota levels, as the group sends a business-as-usual message following the surprise exit of the United Arab Emirates....

Half a century ago, turmoil in the Middle East brought the global economy to its knees. Today, even as the region’s geopolitics grow more fractious, oil markets and central banks typically treat confl...

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki ended his bid to reclaim the role after pressure from the US, which was concerned by his close links to Iran.

The Strait of Hormuz oil shock has yet to crash demand as the rich world borrows from its stocks and pays up to secure supply. Traders are now sounding the alarm that a harsh adjustment is coming.

Egypt’s capital is known for its all-hours buzz. A government effort to reduce power consumption has forced stores and cafés to shut up early.

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Israel is prepared to escalate military operations against Iran, the country’s defense minister, Israel Katz, said in a recorded statement on Thursday. “We are awaiting a green light from the United S...

Navy Secretary John Phelan was fired after clashing with top leaders at the Pentagon, including over administration efforts to revive US shipbuilding, according to people familiar with the matter, mak...

Foreign investors and well-heeled expatriates helped transform Dubai’s housing market into one of the world’s hottest. Now values are falling for the first time since the global pandemic as the region...

Request to Fifa is pitched as effort to repair US ties with country even as Iran says it is ready to participate

Rescue workers say a Lebanese journalist was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon. The daily Al-Akhbar newspaper says its reporter Amal Khalil was killed on Wednesday in the southern vil...

The Trump administration also suspended security cooperation with Baghdad in an escalating pressure campaign.

At least two fully laden Iranian tankers have sailed out of the Persian Gulf and past a US blockade this week, part of a flotilla that has made its way around the warships and ferried roughly 9 millio...

President Donald Trump signaled he is unlikely to extend a two-week ceasefire with Iran that’s set to expire in two days, while Iran has yet to confirm it will participate in talks to end a war that’s...

Emirati officials have spoken with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent about accessing dollars if the Middle East conflict drags on.

President Donald Trump said the Navy stopped and boarded an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman, “blowing a hole” in its engine room after it ignored warnings to stop.

The preparations mark an expansion of the U.S. naval crackdown beyond the Middle East, as the Iranian military tightens its grip on the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran on Saturday reimposed restrictions on vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and Israel attacked targets in Lebanon, undermining expectations of an imminent peace deal touted by US President...