Iran’s Cyber Attack on Billionaire Adelson Provides Lesson on Strategy January 6, 2020 By Alyza Sebenius, Kartikay Mehrotra and William Turton As the U.S. awaits possible retribution over a recent airstrike that killed a top general, there’s at least one American...
Oil Trims Losses on Conflicting Signals About Saudi Recovery September 17, 2019 By David Marino and Sheela Tobben Oil pared an earlier decline on contradicting reports about when Saudi Arabia will restore production lost in unprecedented attacks. A...
Gulf Tanker Incidents May Raise Shippers’ Costs, Cut Traffic July 22, 2019 By David Koenig and Frank Bajak Seizures of oil tankers and other hostile Iranian measures in the Strait of Hormuz are already raising insurance rates for...
Seeking to Avoid Escalation, Ships Deploy Unarmed Guards to Navigate Gulf July 17, 2019 By Jonathan Saul LONDON — Shipping companies are hiring unarmed security guards for voyages through the Middle East Gulf as an extra safeguard...
Iranian Hackers Wage Cyber Campaign Amid Tensions with US June 26, 2019 By Tami Abdollah WASHINGTON — Iran has increased its offensive cyberattacks against the U.S. government and critical infrastructure as tensions have grown between...
Airlines Avoid Strait of Hormuz After Iran-U.S. Tensions Escalate June 21, 2019 Airlines worldwide are diverting flights away from southern Iran, lengthening travel times, after the Federal Aviation Administration issued an edict...
Insurer Says Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Likely Organized Tanker Attack May 17, 2019 By Jonathan Saul and Gwladys Fouche LONDON/OSLO — Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) are “highly likely” to have facilitated attacks last Sunday on four tankers including...
After Attack on Saudi Oil, U.S. Sees Threat from Iraq-Backed Forces May 15, 2019 RIYADH/DUBAI — Saudi Arabia said armed drones struck two of its oil pumping stations on Tuesday, two days after the...
Saudi Arabia Says its Oil Tankers Among those Hit Off UAE Coast May 13, 2019 By Rania El Gamal and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin DUBAI/LONDON — Saudi Arabia said on Monday that two of its oil tankers were among those attacked off the coast...
Iran Oil-Shipping Insurance Rules Lack Clarity January 29, 2014 By Alaric Nightingale Insurance for tankers to export Iranian crude may be unusable even after the U.S. and the European Union eased sanctions...