Middle East

LONDON—In an audio recording released July 21, a British naval officer insists that a British-flagged oil tanker must be allowed to sail through the Strait of Hormuz as Iranian paramilitary ...

WASHINGTON—With Iranian military threats in mind, the United States is sending American forces, including fighter aircraft, air defense ...

Iran held up a second oil tanker, the Liberian-flagged, British-operated vessel Mesdar, near the Strait of Hormuz on July ...

IRBIL, Iraq—Unknown gunmen opened fire inside a Turkish-owned restaurant in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil on July ...

An oil tanker traveling through the Strait of Hormuz near the Persian Gulf stopped transmitting its location, and ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Britain will facilitate the release of a seized Iranian tanker if Iran can provide guarantees ...

A soldier with the United States Army was killed during combat operations in Afghanistan on July 13, military officials ...

ANKARA, Turkey—The first shipment of a Russian missile defense system has arrived in Turkey, the Turkish Defense Ministry ...

A passenger train rammed into a freight train at a railway station in southern Pakistan on Thursday, killing ...

The British navy said it prevented three Iranian paramilitary vessels from impeding the passage of a British oil ...

WASHINGTON—Five boats believed to belong to Iranian Revolutionary Guards approached a British oil tanker in the Gulf on ...

KABUL, Afghanistan—All-Afghan talks that brought together Afghanistan's warring sides ended July 9 with a statement that appeared to ...

The Treasury Department on July 9 levied sanctions on a Hezbollah security official and two members of Lebanon's ...

AMMAN—At least 544 civilians have been killed and over 2,000 people injured since a Russian-led assault on the ...

TEHRAN, Iran—Iran said on July 8 a magnitude 5.7 earthquake rocked a town in the country’s oil-rich southwest, ...

KABUL—Taliban Islamic extremist fighters killed at least eight Afghan security force members and four civilians, as well as ...

CAIRO—Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi movement said on Saturday that it carried out drone attacks on warplane hangars and other ...

Iran’s president is warning Europe that Tehran will “take the next step” in increasing its uranium enrichment this ...

WARNING: Graphic content KABUL, Afghanistan—The Taliban set off a powerful bomb in downtown Kabul on Monday, killing at ...

Iran has breached the terms of a multinational nuclear deal by exceeding a limit on its uranium stockpile, ...

Iran has breached the limit of its enriched uranium stockpile set in a 2015 deal with major powers.

An errant missile struck Cyprus early on Monday, July 1, skimming the densely populated capital Nicosia and crashing ...

Princess Haya, the wife of the ruler of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, has secretly left the country ...

WASHINGTON—Nearly a dozen Air Force F-22 stealth fighters are being deployed to the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, ...

In April, the White House had announced that waivers allowing China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, Italy, ...

A family of 12 who fled their British home in 2015 to join ISIS in Syria have all ...

ISTANBUL—One Turkish soldier was killed and three others were wounded on Thursday when their observation post in Syria's ...