Trump urged stepped-up production as the White House sharpened its warnings to Iran against closing the Strait of Hormuz, a ...

A prominent adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has already called for the closure of the Strait. A ...

When Iran targeted ships in the Strait of Hormuz in the 1980s, the U.S. Navy escorted ships through the strait. This June, even without a formal closure, some oil tankers and supertankers — which can ...

Tanker operators in the Strait of Hormuz are facing higher shipping and insurance costs, despite a drop in oil prices, as investors wait to see what happens to the world's most important crude ...

Analysts with ING financial group outlined four possible avenues for Iran: full escalation that also draws in other nations ...

Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, in what would serve as another act of retaliation after the U.S. launched ...

China’s Foreign Ministry called for greater efforts to maintain stability in the critical shipping lanes of the Persian Gulf, ...

Washington's strikes on Iran stoked fears that Iran could retaliate by closing the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway between Iran ...

By Monday morning, the price of a benchmark barrel of U.S. oil was up 0.4% at $74.16 after briefly dipping to a loss. Brent ...

Two supertankers, each capable of hauling about 2 million barrels of crude, headed through the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth ...

Major global airlines extended flight cancellations to the Persian Gulf, disrupting air traffic to critical hubs such as ...