India on Thursday called on countries in West Asia to avoid targeting energy and civilian infrastructure amid the conflict in the region.

The Ministry of External Affairs said that the recent attacks against energy installations across the region were “deeply disturbing and only serve to further destabilise an already uncertain energy scenario” for the whole world.

“Such attacks are unacceptable and need to cease,” the ministry added, without naming any country.

Here are more top updates from the conflict in West Asia:

  • Qatar on Thursday reported “extensive damage” after Iran struck the Ras Laffan industrial complex, home to the world’s largest liquefied natural gas facility. The facility supplied 19% of global liquefied natural gas exports in 2025, according to Bloomberg.
  • Iran also struck several oil and gas facilities in other Gulf countries, escalating tensions in the region. The strikes by Iran came hours after attack on its energy facilities associated with its South Pars gas field, the world’s largest gas reserve that it shares with Qatar.
  • Amid the uncertainty about energy supply, global natural gas prices jumped more than 5% on Thursday. India was the largest importer of Qatari LNG after China in 2025. The supply disruption caused by the conflict had already triggered concerns and panic in India and globally.
  • The price of benchmark Brent crude jumped more than 4% on Thursday to reach $111 per barrel. The price was $78 per barrel on February 27, a day before the conflict started. Iran has effectively blocked the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterbody connecting the Gulf to the Arabian Sea, for most international commercial vessels. About 20% of global petroleum supply passes through the maritime chokepoint.
  • United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that Israel had “violently lashed out at a major [energy] facility” associated with the South Pars gas field in Iran “out of anger for what has taken place” in West Asia. Trump claimed that the US, which is attacking Iran alongside Israel, “knew nothing about this particular attack”.
  • The US president said that Qatar was not involved in the attack on the Iranian facility. “Unfortunately, Iran did not know this, or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack” and had unjustifiably attacked a portion of a Qatari gas facility.
  • Trump claimed that “no more attacks will be made by Israel” on the “important and valuable South Pars field” unless Iran “unwisely decides” to strike Qatar. In this case, Trump said, the US will “blow up the entirety” of the South Pars gas field. He said that he does not want to authorise “this level of violence and destruction because of the long term implications that it will have on the future of Iran”.
  • Declaring a “new stage of war”, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned that further attacks on Iranian energy infrastructure would trigger additional retaliation, the Financial Times reported. Iranian strikes reportedly targeted energy infrastructure in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, including sites in Abu Dhabi.
  • Iran also issued evacuation warnings for key Gulf energy infrastructure, including Saudi Arabia’s Samref refinery and Jubail petrochemical complex, the United Arab Emirates’ Al Hosn gas field, and Qatar’s Mesaieed petrochemical complex and Mesaieed Holding Company, besides the Ras Laffan refinery, Reuters quoted Iranian state media as saying.
  • Qatar condemned the Ras Laffan strike as a “flagrant breach” of its sovereignty and expelled Iranian military attachés, ordering them to leave within 24 hours. State-owned QatarEnergy said that there had been no casualties in the attack on Ras Laffan.
  • The United Arab Emirates condemned the Iranian “terrorist attack” on the Habshan gas facility and Bab oil field, warning the strikes violate international law and pose a direct threat to regional and global energy security.
  • The authorities in Abu Dhabi announced that gas operations at Habshan facilities and the Bab field have been temporarily halted after incidents of debris from intercepted missiles. The media office’s statement added that there were no injuries reported.
  • Saudi Arabia said that it intercepted ballistic missiles targeting Riyadh and key energy installations, warning Iran that its “patience is not unlimited”, the Financial Times reported.

The US and Israel launched an attack on the Iranian government on February 28, claiming that Tehran’s action posed an existential threat to Israel. Washington acts as a guarantor of Israel’s security. Iran has retaliated by striking Israel and US military bases in the region, and targeting major cities in Gulf countries and some ships.

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Israel has been claiming that Iran is close to obtaining a nuclear weapon, which could alter the regional security balance. Tehran has long maintained that its nuclear programme is for civilian purposes.

Since the start of the conflict, Iran has effectively blocked the Strait of Hormuz for most international commercial vessels. About 20% of global petroleum supply passes through the maritime chokepoint.

The International Energy Agency has said that the fighting has caused the “largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market”.