Tehran’s Houthi allies in Yemen have ramped up their threats after bottling up shipping for years.

For South Africa, the consequences could be both immediate and complicated. In the short term, the country may actually benefit from the very instability shaking global markets. Geopolitical conflict ...

If the UK wants to regain serious respect in the world, it needs its European leg as well as its transatlantic one, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash ...

But at just 35 miles wide, it did. It’s just the latest evidence of how dependent the global economy is on a handful of choke points.

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Suez Crisis of 1956 offers key lessons for today’s Iran conflict — from limits of military power to the role of ...

Every day the meter is ticking. Like a time bomb.' Shipping giants are billing Indian exporters up to $3,000 per container in war surcharges -- on cargo that sailed before the war began -- as the ...

Most of the ships passing the strait are owned or flagged in Iran, said Bridget Diakun, an analyst at data company Lloyd’s List Intelligence. After that, Greek ships accounted for 18pc of crossings ...

Many governments still see diplomacy as the most viable route, though progress has been limited. Escalating attacks on energy infrastructure have hardened positions, reducing the likelihood of ...

When he joined Israel to launch a war on Iran, Donald Trump revealed he does not comprehend Iran, the Arabs and the region as a whole as well as Israel.

Some 1,200 miles from the Strait of Hormuz across the Arabian Peninsula, sits another of the world’s most vulnerable shipping choke points. Just like the now-paralysed entrance to the Gulf, the Bab al ...

Israeli war against Iran continues and the movement of oil through the Strait of Hormuz remains almost completely cut off ...