The narrow waterway of the Strait of Hormuz carries more weight than its 21-mile width suggests. Through this strategic chokepoint flows roughly 20% of the world’s petroleum liquids — a staggering ...

History records the seventeenth-century Battle of Hormuz as one of the biggest naval battles of that era, fought between the dominant powers of Portugal and an Anglo-Dutch alliance. Today’s battle at ...

Cargo ships in the Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from northern Ras al-Khaimah, near the border with Oman’s Musandam governance, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in United Arab ...

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Unless you've waded deep into the weeds on energy sector chokepoints (as I did more than a decade ago), you've probably never heard of the Strait of Hormuz before this year. However, you've now likely ...

Increased stockpiles, more pipelines and other tactics could loosen the waterway’s stranglehold on the global economy. By Peter Eavis Reporting from New York When Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz ...

A true-color image of the Strait of Malacca taken on August 22, 2025, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has locked up nearly 20 percent of the world’s oil supply. If the closure persists, argues Mark P. Mills, the consequences will rival that of the 1973–74 Arab oil ...

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