Category: 2. World

The United States Central Command says American forces have resumed the naval blockade of Iranian ports and vessels, despite the Islamic Republic’s warnings that Washington would not be able to forcibly reopen the…

The US and Iran have been exchanging waves of strikes, as a dispute over control of the Strait of Hormuz threatens to derail efforts to end their war.

BBC correspondent Barbara Plett Usher, reporting from Jerusalem, examines the latest tensions…

The wife of a man who was nearly sucked head-first out of a cabin window in mid-air on a Ryanair plane has described her fright at the incident.

“He was out for maybe two or three minutes,” she said, before adding “the lady sitting next to him…

Centcom earlier said it had carried out a third night of attacks with the same aim, and on Tuesday Iran’s state media reported blasts in multiple cities, including Bushehr – home to a nuclear power plant.

Tehran said it had targeted US military…

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has dismissed inflammatory rhetoric by US President Donald Trump, saying such “disrespectful remarks” reflected those who made them, not the Iranian nation.

Over the past week,…

According to Press TV, in a statement on Tuesday evening, the IRGC said naval and aerospace units carried out a coordinated missile and drone attack under the code name “Ya Zain al-Abidin.”

It also warned that continued US military action…

Last night, far from the thunder of this escalation, its parliament quietly introduced a new bill to manage the strait called the Strategic Action for the Security and Sustainable Progress of the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf.

That news…

Israeli war minister Israel Katz has requested that President Isaac Herzog pardon Elor Azaria, a former Israeli soldier convicted for killing an incapacitated Palestinian in Hebron, Israeli media reported.

On 24 March 2016, Azaria killed Abdel…