Two giant ocean-going tankers collided and caught fire and two other ships were approached by Iranian boats near the Strait ...

The roots of the Iran-Israel standoff lie in the seismic shift of 1979, when the Iranian Revolution overthrew the Shah and ...

Kharg Island is a small island in the Persian Gulf. It lies 16 miles off the northwest coast of Iran. It's 451 miles from ...

The State Department is preparing to order the departure of all nonessential personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad due ...

Iran has threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz on several occasions over the years, including in January 2012 in ...

Petah Tikva, in central Israel, suffered some of the worst damage after Iran fired a huge wave of ballistic missiles ...

The attack on the Quds facility in Tehran, and the extent of any casualties or damage, could not immediately be verified independently. It came as Iranian missiles struck several Israeli cities early ...

The president says he will "see what happens" after Iran's supreme leader warns of "irreparable harm" if the US intervenes.

Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday, in strikes that targeted the country’s nuclear program and raised the potential for an all-war war between two bitter Middle East adversaries.

As Donald Trump considers whether to join Israel in attacking Iran, Iran's supreme leader says his country will not surrender ...

The history of natural pearls is so intertwined with the Arabian Gulf, it is almost impossible to think of one without the other. For millennia, these waters were the world’s most prolific source of ...