Maritime trackers received new reports of an attack on a ship in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, adding to concerns about Iran-related threats to energy supplies after Saudi Arabia shut down a vital oil pipeline. Iran wants its control of the Strait of Hormuz to be recognised, allowing it to collect fees from ships…
A war in the Middle East probably wasn’t what Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney had in mind in Davos earlier this year, when he made a pitch for the world’s so-called middle powers to join together in a world defined by increasingly aggressive military juggernauts. A satellite view of smoke billowing at a Saudi Aramco…
China’s government has condemned the joint U.S.-Israeli military strikes on Iran and urged Gulf states to work together to oppose foreign influence, as the Middle East erupts into a wider conflict. In the country’s initial comments Sunday, March 1, after the killing of Iranian leader Ali Khamenei, China’s foreign ministry called the attacks “a grave…