The Middle East war has intensified an oil crisis as Iran's actions in the Strait of Hormuz disrupt global energy supplies.

Iran and the United States hardened their positions as diplomacy aimed at reaching a ceasefire in the war appeared to be ...

For Islamabad, the possible role in facilitating talks is not about spectacle, but about quiet leverage — geography, access, ...

The Arab countries of the Gulf opposed the U.S. war in Iran. Yet they face some of the heaviest attacks from Iran and feel the war could leave them less secure than when the fighting began.

Iran has been laying traps and moving additional military personnel and air defenses to Kharg Island in recent weeks in ...

"A weakened Iran has discovered a weapon more powerful than the nuclear bomb and cheaper to use," writes Bobby Ghosh ...

The essential truth about Donald Trump is that he does not do alliances or even friendships. He’s turned on NATO, on Ukraine, ...

When the U.S. launched Operation Earnest Will in 1987 to safeguard commercial vessels in the Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War, ...

Two new papers have shown that dogs were fully distinct from wolves—and companions with people—more than 14,000 years ago.

Born to Kurdish-Persian parents in 1961 near Mashhad, a Shiite pilgrim hub in Iran's northeast, Ghalibaf is an expert in ...

Last week, the International Maritime Organization submitted a proposal to protect shipping in the Persian Gulf that’s ...