The petrostates of the Gulf are famed for their vast oil and gas resources, but their populations and prosperity have also been built on another commodity: water.

The U.S. may have pulled the trigger on the Iran war, but it is the oil-producing Gulf that will pay the price, Gulf sources ...

The new war in the Persian Gulf has created major risk for crude oil importers and exporters both. But there are still winners and losers. Who are they?

As missiles and drones curtail energy production across the Persian Gulf, analysts warn that water, not oil, may be the resource most at risk in the energy-rich but arid region. O ...

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and neighboring countries in the Persian Gulf region use the fossil fuels under their desert lands not only to make money, but also to make drinking water. The ...

The U.S.-Iran conflict has closed the only two routes for data in and out of the region.

The Iran war has halted oil tanker movement in the key Strait of Hormuz. The conflict is also disrupting the wider global supply chain beyond oil, affecting everything from pharmaceuticals from India, ...

August 2nd marks the 35th anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, and therefore the beginning of Operation Desert Shield, which would later fall under the umbrella of the overall ...

The world is edging toward a perilous precedent—one that threatens not only geopolitical stability, but the oceans themselves. As tensions escalate involving the United States, Ukraine, Russia, Iran, ...

WASHINGTON — A group of veterans and their advocates are pushing the Defense Department to declassify tens of thousands of documents from the first Gulf War with the aim of finding clues to the ...

WASHINGTON — A Gulf War veteran is formally requesting the Department of Veterans Affairs add Gulf War illness to the list of service-connected medical conditions that qualify veterans for monthly, ...