US President Donald Trump renewed his claims of momentum toward ending the conflict with Iran, after brokering a halt to hostilities between Israel and the Islamic Republic and easing tensions that had threatened to derail broader peace efforts.
A projectile in the sky over central Israel during an Iranian missile attack on June 7.
BlackRock Inc.βs Global Infrastructure Partners and Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. are among private equity firms shortlisted to buy a stake in a Kuwaiti pipeline network, indicating sustained interest for marquee Gulf assets despite a monthslong war thatβs impacted regional production and roiled energy markets globally.
Major OPEC+ members agreed another modest symbolic increase to their oil output quotas for July, even as a blockage of exports from the Persian Gulf prevents most of them from implementing it.
The headquarters of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna, Austria, on Sunday, April 5, 2026. The United Arab Emirates will leave OPEC and its wider alliance, dealing a blow to the group and its leader Saudi Arabia as the global oil industry grapples with the massive supply disruption caused by the Iran war.
Washington has reportedly presented a one-page memorandum of understanding that would gradually reopen the Strait of Hormuz and lift the American blockade on Iranian ports.