The Persian Gulf is a major source of fertilizers, making the conflict disruptive to the global production of food.

The conflict raging in the Middle East will test the resilience of a global economy that has already contended with wars and trade disruptions over the past year.

The broadening Iran war has ricocheted across the region and beyond. Nearly every country in the Middle East has sustained damage from missile hits, drone strikes or shrapnel.

Intensifying hostilities across the Middle East have triggered significant population movement, while clashes along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan have forced thousands of families to ...

The significant military escalation in the Middle East has claimed civilian lives, damaged and destroyed vital infrastructure and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes, requiring ...

Recent conflicts in the region have either spared energy infrastructure or caused limited damage. That isn't the case in the ...

Just as geology created the conditions for human habitation in the Fertile Crescent, those same tectonic movements created ...

The EU is the top trading partner of African countries collectively and by far their largest export market, ahead of China, India and the United States. six economic partnership agreements (EPAs) with ...