The U.S. middle class is shrinking, but not because more Americans are poorer. Instead, more households are climbing into the echelons of the upper middle class due to income gains in recent decades, ...

South Korea will send a special envoy to Iran to discuss the safe passage of its vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, following a ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran, the foreign ministry ...

In a speech to the nation on April 1, President Donald Trump spoke of the Iran war, and the contest for control of the Strait of Hormuz, as if their outcome had little bearing on the market for oil ...

President Trump expressed optimism Wednesday that the Iran war cease-fire agreement will usher in a “Golden Age” in the Middle East. “A big day for World Peace!” Trump wrote on Truth Social following ...

On Tuesday, April 7, following six weeks of conflict, the US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire. The temporary pause will allow for negotiations between the two countries, set to begin on Friday, ...

WASHINGTON, Apr. 8, 2026 — The latest conflict in the Middle East has taken a serious and immediate economic toll on countries in the surrounding region. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz and ...

The Pentagon’s build up of U.S. military assets in the Middle East is the largest in decades. There are now more than 50,000 U.S. troops in the Middle East, which is 10,000 more than usual. The uptick ...

The State Department on Tuesday warned Americans in the Middle East to evacuate ahead of President Trump’s threatened bombings on a wide range of infrastructure in Iran, escalating tensions in the ...

As per Etihad’s latest travel updates, issued on Thursday, 19 March and remaining in place as of Tuesday, 7 April, the airline is currently operating from its base in Abu Dhabi to 80 destinations.

Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services, said the cloud infrastructure provider has teams working around the clock to keep its infrastructure operating in the Middle East. AWS data centers in Bahrain ...