Iranian state media published a draft plan for the Strait of Hormuz last week that would ban U.S. and Israeli ships from transiting the Strait of Hormuz and charge compensation from other ...

The U.S.-Iran conflict has evolved into what resembles a game of chicken in the Strait of Hormuz, with each side betting that the other will make concessions under the pressure of economic pain.

The drone that exploded near the shelter where Sarwan and nine other fighters had taken cover didn’t spray the usual cloud of metal fragments. It released something they found even more ...

For more than four decades, Turkey has sought to crush the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) through military campaigns, mass arrests and the imprisonment of its leaders, amid an ...

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Over the past two days, Iran’s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has appointed veteran commanders to some of the country’s most powerful military and security posts, turning to officials who spent ...

Two prominent senators, one Democrat and one Republican, have put their name on a bill that aims to support Lebanon’s sovereignty with the larger aim of curtailing Hezbollah. Senators Jeanne ...

The U.S.-backed body overseeing U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan is standing by the reciprocal steps at its heart after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly ...

After years of confrontation on the battlefield, Hezbollah and Syria’s new leadership appear to be sending increasingly clear signals that they may be willing to sit down at the same table. The ...

Mohsen Rezaei, one of the longest-serving figures in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has returned to the heart of Tehran’s national security establishment, after Supreme Leader Mojtaba ...

International and U.S. oil companies operating in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region halted production amid conflict in the region – making them the latest casualties of a conflict in which the Kurds ...

The weekend’s news on the Iran war fluctuated between reports of massive U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran’s infrastructure and President Donald Trump saying he canceled the attacks because of an ...