The Iranian military loaded naval mines onto vessels in the Persian Gulf last month, a move that intensified concerns in ...

Naval forces in the Middle East warned that ships, especially U.S.-linked ones, could be at heightened risk after the U.S.

Asked for comment about Iran's preparations, a White House official said: "Thanks to the President’s brilliant execution of ...

Pentagon officials are trying to prepare for all of the ways Iran could retaliate, as President Trump hints at what he might ...

It's now largely forgotten that in the early 1900s, nearly a third of the Arabian Peninsula was under British India.

As U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities drive fears of retaliation, it remains to be seen whether Iran will try to ...

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 Tehran, Iran's capital — roughly the distance from Detroit to New York ...

Closing the Strait of Hormuz is one of the ways Iran could retaliate after the U.S. bombed three of the country’s nuclear ...

In the winter of 1956, The Times correspondent David Holden arrived on the island of Bahrain, then still a British protectorate. After a short-lived career teaching geography, Holden had looked ...