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(Bloomberg) –The cost of insuring Middle East oil shipments is soaring as tensions mount in a region responsible for about a third of all seaborne

By Nick Wadhams (Bloomberg) –The U.S. is seeking support from allies for a program to monitor commercial shipping in the Persian Gulf after attacks on

By Alaric Nightingale and Firat Kayakiran (Bloomberg) –Oil tanker owners are raising the prices they charge to export Middle East crude as tensions

By Liam Denning (Bloomberg Opinion) –“It is not the role of the United States to take the lead in protecting neutral shipping in the [Persian] Gulf.”

By Babak Dehghanpisheh GENEVA, June 18 (Reuters) – If, despite its firm denials, Iran was behind attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf last week and a

By Aaron Sheldrick and Yuka Obayashi TOKYO, June 17 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Monday that countries need to

By Ghaida Ghantous and Rania El Gamal DUBAI, June 14 (Reuters) – The United States and its allies may need to to start escorting commercial vessels to

By Karen Leigh and Shelly Banjo (Bloomberg) — The U.S. warned Hong Kong that it could face penalties if it does business with an oil tanker

By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON, May 24 (Reuters) – The United States announced on Friday the deployment of 1,500 troops

By Alex Longley (Bloomberg) — Not since 2005 have the world’s insurers considered shipping in the Persian Gulf so dangerous for oil tankers.

By Marwa Rashad and Stephen Kalin RIYADH, May 19 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia said on Sunday it wanted to avert war in the region but stood ready to respond

By Jonathan Saul and Gwladys Fouche LONDON/OSLO, May 17 (Reuters) – Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) are “highly likely” to

By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) – U.S. officials believe Iran encouraged Houthi militants or Iraq-based Shi’ite militias to carry

By Stephen Kalin and Alexander Cornwell RIYADH/DUBAI, May 14 (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia said Washington should take what he

DUBAI, May 10 (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Friday Tehran would not negotiate with the United States and a senior cleric warned

LONDON/DUBAI, May 10 (Reuters) – Iran could target U.S. commercial ships including oil tankers, the U.S. Maritime Administration said on Friday, as a

By Alex Wayne and Joe Deaux (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Wednesday prohibiting the purchase of Iranian iron, steel,

By Melissa Cheok (Bloomberg) — The U.S. said it’s sending an aircraft carrier strike group and bomber force to the Middle East to send an

LONDON, April 23 (Reuters) – Iran has said it would block the Strait of Hormuz if it was barred from using the strategic waterway through which about a

By Lesley Wroughton and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) – The United States on Monday demanded that buyers of Iranian oil stop