Iranian forces have seized a tanker suspected of smuggling cheap fuel out of the country. The Mehr news agency said the ...

Tehran's population of 16.8 million people had previously been immune to the impacts of drought, with a large portion of ...

The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is in port in Bahrain, marking the first time an aircraft carrier has visited the Middle Eastern country since 2020. While an aircraft carrier has not visited Bahrain ...

Iran’s Deputy Oil Minister Hamid Bovard has not stepped down from his post as head of the National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC), the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on August 11, two weeks after ...

Ships carrying Chinese cars are using the Red Sea and Suez Canal even as other vessels still sail around Africa in fear of ...

The Zangezur Corridor now named after President Trump offers the US as strategic arbiter of a region previously dominated by Russia and Iran ...

President Trump’s announcement of sweeping new tariffs on India, totaling 50%, should dispel illusions that the US–India ...

Power and water outages have combined with record-breaking heat. Three Iranians tell us how they’ve had to adjust.

T HE SOUTH CAUCASUS is a mosaic of warring rivals and closed borders. Lookout posts and bunkers dot its frontiers. On August ...

Iranian crude builds up offshore as over 30 million barrels float near Malaysia, the highest in more than five years.

Despite strong Sino-Iranian ties, the Middle East’s importance for China’s economy, and Beijing’s growing diplomatic profile in the region, the PRC government generally stood aside during the ...

For months President Donald Trump has been attempting to stop the fighting in Ukraine, and he may meet with Vladimir Putin in ...