As Somali pirates hijacking giant cargo vessels and tankers from tiny motorised skiffs wreaked havoc across the region from the mid-2000s to the early 2010s, a tiny group of UK military reservists in a bungalow in the gardens of the British diplomatic mission in Dubai found themselves fielding daily calls from panicked merchant ships.

Missile attacks on Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City have reduced the country’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity by 17 percent and are expected to result in an estimated $20 billion in ann...

The Iranian strikes led to already elevated global energy prices further surging and spurred Gulf allies to call for Mr. Trump to rein in Mr. Netanyahu.