The Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed. Since the beginning of the conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran ...

US Navy says escorts through Hormuz are currently impossible as war with Iran halts shipping and threatens global oil supply.

Iran ends negotiations with Washington, says Foreign Minister Araghchi. Trump warns Tehran over Strait of Hormuz amid rising tensions.

When Anthony Albanese raised concerns in Beijing about the PLA Navy’s live-fire exercise off Australia’s east coast, Xi Jinping’s reply was blunt: Chinese ships will exercise where they like in [...] ...

US President Donald Trump said the war with Iran could end “very soon,” claiming US-Israel strikes had crippled Tehran’s military. However, he kept the timeline vague while warning of massive retaliat ...

08:29, Wed, Mar 11, 2026 Updated: 08:30, Wed, Mar 11, 2026 Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East has criticised the UK amid a growing rift between the transatlantic allies. Steve Witkoff ...

Asian equities and global futures managed to steady the ship today, helped by crude holding just below the psychologically charged $90 line. In the current regime, that single number functions less ...

The US-Israel war on Iran entered its 11th day. Ahram Online provides live coverage of the widening regional conflict.

More than three-fourths of the crude oil exports from the Middle East to China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan pass through ...

A lull in Iranian attacks against ships in the Middle East Gulf may have come to an end after a container ship reported damage early on Wednesday about 25 nautical miles (40 kilometres) off the United ...

Speaking after a classified briefing from administration officials to the Senate Armed Services ​Committee, Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen called on the administration to send officials to testify ...