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

Israel has escalated its bombardment of Iranian cities, including Tehran's state television headquarters; Iranian missiles ...

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

Israel's air strikes on Iran are unlikely to cause a major disruption to oil supply, and market analysts believe a full-scale ...

Fears are growing that a wider conflict could erupt in the Middle East following strikes on Tehran’s nuclear facilities ...

Bahrain and Oman – all use the term Arabian Gulf. Today, Google Maps uses the term Persian Gulf, with Arabian Gulf in brackets. For years, the US military has unilaterally referred to the ...

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency lists “Persian Gulf” as the conventional name but acknowledges “Arabian Gulf” as a variant. The U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain ...

Trump is considering renaming the Persian Gulf to the "Arabian Gulf" for official US purposes. The possible name change is controversial, with Iran strongly opposing it. This follows Trump's ...

as the application has updated the maps to indicate that the Persian Gulf is also referred to as the Arabian Gulf. The change happened after Google Maps previously updated the name of the Gulf of ...

The countries that surround the Persian Gulf are Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar ... He also shared a map that the Library of the US Congress has used, clearly showing the ...

The expected announcement was first reported Wednesday by the Associated Press, which clashed with the Trump administration earlier this year over the president renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the ...

In that period, both the names Persian and Arabian Gulf appear in texts. However, the latter referred to an area that roughly equated to the Red Sea. The world maps of the Greek historians and ...