Iran continues to launch missile and drone strikes across several Middle East countries as Trump warns over the Strait of ...

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Britain’s last Royal Navy vessel in the Middle East was sent home weeks before the outbreak of war against Iran. HMS Middleton was dispatched from Bahrain in late January, some seven weeks before the ...

Explosions are reported on two more foreign tankers in the Persian Gulf killing at least one person, port authorities say.

The US-Israeli war on Iran, now in its thirteenth day, is rapidly spiraling and has triggered a cascading regional crisis centred on the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway through which 20 percent of the ...

Oil prices have jumped more than 9% to nearly $100 a barrel while President Trump touts U.S. gains from higher prices.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei says that the leverage of closing the Strait of Hormuz should be used and ...

A US F/A-18F Super Hornet being refuelled. A KC-135 Stratotanker has crashed in Iraq An American refuelling plane has crashed in Iraq, US Central Command has announced. A rescue mission is under way ...

Nearly 75 percent of farmers surveyed before the war said the crop sector was in a recession. They face bigger hurdles this planting season.

It came after Israeli strikes hit a building in a busy residential and commercial district in central Beirut, close to the ...