Dominic Dudley

More than 1,000 Bahraini citizens have sent messages of support to King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa in recent weeks, praising a clampdown on those accused of being sympathetic to Iran.

Aluminium Bahrain is pressing ahead with a plan to buy France's Aluminium Dunkerque, but the price has risen sharply since the idea was first mooted earlier in the year.

Kuwait briefly closed its international airport on Wednesday, after Iranian drones and missiles killed one person and injured more than 60 others, and

Food security is a perennial issue for Gulf countries, where the harsh climate and limited water resources make growing crops difficult and expensive. Oman is aiming to produce 80% of the food it consumes by 2040. In pursuit of that, the government has set up a string of

The UAE's two largest port operators are pushing into Latin America, with deals in Brazil and the Dominican Republic.

Saudi investors are weighing up a deal to create a 140-acre industrial park in Pakistan's port city of Karachi, in a further sign of warming ties between the two countries.

Oman announced $9 billion worth of projects involving investors from Asia, Europe, and the Middle East — a sign of how the country is proving more able than some in the region to handle the disruption caused by the Iran war.

Abu Dhabi has launched a drive to bring 55 billion dirhams ($15 billion) of private capital into its infrastructure build-out.

A Qatari LNG tanker sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday — one of the few transits made since the Iran war began and a hopeful sign for Doha.

Last week, Dubai’s DFM and Abu Dhabi’s ADX General Index hit their highest levels since the war broke out.