The reports of attacks on commercial ships came after the US said it "eliminated" 16 Iranian mine-layers in the area.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that Tuesday would be the most intense day yet of U.S. strikes inside Iran. The Islamic Republic, its firepower diminished, has vowed to fight ...

The US says the ships were targeted in the Strait of Hormuz - a key shipping route. In Dubai, authorities say the airport is ...

The U.S. military said it took out multiple Iranian vessels Tuesday as the Islamic Republic vowed to block the region’s oil exports and concerns grew about the country’s threats to stop tankers from ...

The oil price spiked near $120 after strikes on Iran's energy sites and the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz. With tankers stuck and Gulf oil facilities hit, producers are running short on storage to ...

Iraq coach Graham Arnold has urged soccer’s international governing body to postpone his team’s intercontinental World Cup ...

The Pope has accepted the resignation of the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq. Cardinal Louis Sako's retirement paves the way for a transition in one of Iraq's ...

BAGHDAD — Of his countless stories of his life as a hairdresser in Iraq, the one Qaiss al-Sharaa most enjoys retelling is about the day April 9, 2003, when he watched Iraqis and American Marines pull ...

Iraq is the only country in the Middle East to be targeted by both sides in the current conflict. There, the war could impact everything from the next government to intercommunal violence and civil ...

The ongoing Israeli-American war on Iran, for all its complexity and global effects, boils down to a single question: Who can take the pain the longest? A surge in oil prices points to what may be ...

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