While talks to end the Iran war have stalled, the Trump administration appears to be reaching out to a broader swath of countries that might be able to help pressure Tehran or ease its hardline position where traditional mediators haven't succeeded so far.

The United Arab Emirates has blamed Iran for firing drones at two tankers operated by a state-owned oil company in the Strait of Hormuz.

Clashes between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and government forces in Yemen raged overnight.

President Donald Trump has extended a waiver for 90 days, allowing foreign ships to transport goods among U.S. ports.

U.S. President Donald Trump is scoffing at Iran's demands that the U.S. pay for devastation caused by five months of war.

The U.S. stock market edged down from its all-time high, while oil prices rose on uncertainty about when the Strait of Hormuz could reopen and get the global flow of crude going again.

Israel’s prime minister is rejecting President Donald Trump’s announced deal for Gaza and says Israeli forces won’t withdraw from the Palestinian territory until Hamas disarms.

Iran has issued dramatic new demands around the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

To reach a deal with Iran that reopens the economically vital Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump may need to do something out of character — compromise.

Iran says it is in the final stage of drafting an agreement on the Strait of Hormuz waterway with Oman.

Israel's military for the first time in weeks has told residents in southern Lebanon to evacuate, citing a “blatant violation of the ceasefire” by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah.

Iran and Oman have moved closer to an agreement on the Strait of Hormuz.

Big oil companies continue to book massive profits as fighting in Iran disrupts energy markets and sends oil and gasoline prices sharply higher.

Iran and the Gulf Arab state of Oman have made progress toward a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a potential breakthrough that could help wind down the war in the Middle East.

Iran and Oman are inching toward a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and potentially help bring an end to the war.

After calling off a fresh round of strikes against Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump says the two sides are resuming talks to wind down the war.

Oil prices fell sharply Sunday after President Donald Trump said he would order U.S. forces to hold off on new strikes against Iran.

A main development in the Middle East is that the White House is signaling that President Donald Trump is weighing carrying out new strikes on Iran.

Major oil companies reported massive profits while fighting between Iran and the U.S. impeded petroleum shipments.

The United States and Iran have each fired barrages of missiles as the pattern of back-and-forth strikes takes hold again and hope dims for a quick end to the five-month conflict.

The U.S. military says it has completed what it describes as “a heavy wave of strikes against Iran” conducted in response to an earlier Iranian missile attack on a U.S. base in Jordan.

The U.S. military says it successfully intercepted an Iranian missile barrage and worked with Saudi Arabia’s forces to strike sites in Iraq that Tehran-backed militias have used to launch attacks in recent days.

Mediators have made progress in efforts to bring the United States and Iran back to negotiations and prevent an all-out war in the Middle East.

Oil prices have fallen further in early trading after setting a two-month high set last week.

The United States has not attacked Iran for a second day, and Tehran says it has also halted attacks.

The U.S. military has paused its airstrikes on Iran after nearly two weeks of intensifying bombing.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels say they fired missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia in response to Saudi airstrikes on Yemen's strategic Red Sea city of Hodeida.

The U.S. military says it has fired on a merchant vessel attempting to breach its blockade of Iranian ports, while Iran targeted American strongholds around the Persian Gulf.

The United States and Pakistan have rejected threats by Yemen’s Houthi rebels against Saudi Arabia and shipping in the Red Sea.

The U.S. military says it completed the 11th night of strikes on Iran as attacks across the Middle East overshadowed diplomatic efforts to salvage an interim ceasefire deal that has collapsed.

The U.S. and Iran are back to bombing every day in a bid to control the Strait of Hormuz.

Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have announced a maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia.

U.S. gas prices have jumped to an average of $4 a gallon again as the U.S. and Iran launch more attacks.

Iran has attacked a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, forcing its crew to abandon the ship.

Southeast Asia’s top diplomats will express alarm over renewed hostilities in the Middle East when they gather in the Philippine capital for annual talks.

The United States has announced another death of a service member as it launches more airstrikes at Iran.

The United States and Iran are crossing each other's red lines, one after the other.

The U.S. military says it has carried out new airstrikes against Iran to “swiftly punish” the country’s Revolutionary Guard for an attack in Jordan that killed two American service members, left one more missing and four requiring hospitalization.

U.S. companies have signed roughly $60 billion in agreements and partnerships with the Iraqi government, including deals intended to create alternative routes for shipping oil out of the Persian Gulf.

The United States and Iran have exchanged strikes aimed at infrastructure and military targets as their battle over the Strait of Hormuz intensifies.

Fighting between the U.S. and Iran has intensified.

There is now a yawning gap between the preliminary deal signed between the United States and Iran less than a month ago and the situation on the ground.

The United States is expanding its airstrike campaign against Iran by increasingly hitting bridges.

U.S. wholesale inflation fell from May to June on plunging energy prices but intensifying hostilities with Iran are clouding the outlook.

The United States has intensified its strikes targeting Iran, hitting targets further north.

President Donald Trump has been trying to force Iran to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz for months.

A focal point of the Iran war is increasingly about who controls the Strait of Hormuz — a waterway that for decades was a relatively safe transit route for Middle East oil and natural gas supplies.

U.S. inflation cooled last month as the cost of gas, clothes, and used cars fell, providing some relief to consumers, while underlying price pressures also slowed more than expected.

Oil prices jumped following a weekend of attacks in the Middle East, while slumping AI stocks weighed on stock markets.

The U.S. has launched more strikes on Iran after President Donald Trump said Washington is “reinstating” a blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz.

The U.S. military has launched several waves of strikes on Iran over Tehran's attack on a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz that set it ablaze and left a crew member missing earlier in the weekend.

Global oil demand is set to decline this year for the first time since 2020.

The U.S. is demanding that Iran make a public statement saying the Strait of Hormuz is open and that ships crossing the vital corridor won’t be attacked anymore.

The potential unraveling of a fragile truce between Iran and the United States has renewed anxiety over fuel prices.

The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday modestly downgraded its outlook for the world economy this year, citing the energy shock caused by the Iran war.

The U.S. military has attacked Iran after it said Tehran struck three ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran’s joint military command has warned that all oil tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz must use its approved routes or face a “forceful response.”.

U.S. and Iranian negotiators have met separately with Qatari and Pakistani mediators and host Qatar is reporting positive progress in talks.

The 60-day clock is ticking on further talks between the United States and Iran on the interim deal they signed earlier this month, but it's not clear when their negotiators will meet again.

The United States and Iran have separately announced they are sending delegations to Qatar this week, though Tehran insists it has not agreed to meet with the U_S_ “at any level.”.

The U.S. military has launched a second round of airstrikes targeting Iran at President Donald Trump’s direction.

The U.S. has struck Iran to respond to a drone attack a day earlier on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, a provocation that President Donald Trump said violated the ceasefire.

Iranian drone strikes and US retaliation amid a shaky ceasefire have blunted an uptick in shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

Vice President JD Vance says peace talks with Iran created a “good foundation for a successful final deal” to end the war that began at the end of February.

Vice President JD Vance says his lengthy talks with senior Iranian officials in Switzerland created a good foundation for a final deal to end the Iran war.

High-level negotiations in Switzerland seeking a permanent end to the Iran war have ended.

Maritime data company Lloyd’s List Intelligence says major shipowners have begun moving vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.

Stocks closed higher on Wall Street, taking back most of their losses from a day earlier that were driven by anticipation that the Federal Reserve will likely raise interest rates this year in an effort to fight inflation.

Leaders at the Group of Seven summit have backed U.S. President Donald Trump's tentative agreement with Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and extend a ceasefire.

The White House has informed supporters that President Donald Trump has accomplished his goals in the war with Iran despite the details of an initial agreement remaining unclear.

Osamah Khalil, an expert on U.S. foreign relations and the Middle East, joined us on The Morning Show to discuss what’s next after an initial peace agreement was hammered out by the U.S. and Iran.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier says Europe is worried over tensions in the disputed South China Sea that could endanger freedom of navigation as happened in the Strait of Hormuz.

The tentative agreement to end the war in Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz would be good news for the global economy.

An initial agreement between the United States and Iran to extend their shaky ceasefire is inching toward a formal signing.

U.S. President Donald Trump is in France this week for a G7 summit.

Momentum for a deal to end the Iran war is growing.

The United States and Iran appear close to a deal to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz.

The war in Iran is driving up jet fuel prices, worsening supply strains for African airlines.

Pakistan's prime minister says the United State and Iran have agreed to wording of an agreement aimed at ending their war in the Middle East.

U.S. President Donald Trump has called off new military strikes on Iran, hours after threatening to escalate the war.

The United States launched a second round of airstrikes on Iran and Iran has fired back at Gulf States after President Donald Trump warned that Tehran would “pay the price” for stalled negotiations.

New government data released Monday shows U.S. airlines spent nearly $6.5 billion on jet fuel in April.

Iran has fired ballistic missiles and drones toward Bahrain and Kuwait.

The U.S. military says it shot down four Iranian drones that were launched toward the Strait of Hormuz on Friday and then struck some of the Islamic Republic’s coastal surveillance radar sites in response.

The number of Americans filing for jobless aid hit their highest level in four months last week, but layoffs remain historically low despite ongoing economic uncertainty brought on by the war in Iran.

Prolonged disruption of energy supplies from the Middle East that lasts into next year would deal a severe blow to the global economy.

The U.S. military says Iran fired missiles at Kuwait and Bahrain that failed or were shot down, and that the U.S. launched strikes on an Iranian facility in response.

The United States says it has bombed radar and drone sites in Iran after Tehran shot down an American drone over the weekend.

U.S. President Donald Trump met with his advisers for about two hours but has not yet made a decision on whether to move forward with a deal to extend the Iran ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

U.S. and Iranian negotiators have reached a tentative agreement to extend the ceasefire by 60 days and start a new round of talks on Iran’s nuclear program.

President Donald Trump says a deal with Iran, including opening the Strait of Hormuz, has been “largely negotiated.”.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says “slight progress” has been made during talks with Iran.

The U.S. military says it boarded an Iranian-flagged commercial oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman that was suspected of trying to violate the American blockade.

President Donald Trump considers himself an effective dealmaker but appears to have hit a wall with Iran.

Oil prices and stock markets worldwide swung with uncertainty about what will happen with the Iran war.

A drone strike has targeted the United Arab Emirates’ sole nuclear power plant.

Iran’s foreign minister says that a lack of trust remains the biggest obstacle in negotiations to end the war with the U.S. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said contradictory messages from the U.S. have made Iran reluctant about its intentions in the stalled ceasefire negotiations.

Tensions are escalating again near the Strait of Hormuz after a ship anchored off the United Arab Emirates was seized and taken toward Iran and another was attacked and sank near the coast of Oman.

Americans paid more for their groceries in April, but high gas prices were only one of the reasons why.

President Donald Trump is moving to suspend the federal tax on gasoline to help Americans shoulder surging fuel prices caused by the Iran war.