Iranian Revolutionary Guards seized an Iraqi oil tanker in the Persian Gulf which they said was smuggling fuel and detained seven crewmen, Iran’s state media reported on Sunday, in a show of power a...
By Vivian Yee, Yonette Joseph and Iliana Magra/New York Times News Service
in Beirut
The foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt made a statement to the Commons on Monday outlining the tough measures the UK was proposing to take to persuade Iran to release the British-flagged tanker, the Stena ...
At least one sailor from Kerala is confirmed to be on the Stena Impero, the British-flagged oil tanker seized by Iran on Friday with 18 Indian crew members on board.Kochi police’s special branch tol...
US President Donald Trump blamed Iran on Friday for attacks on two oil tankers at the entrance to the Gulf despite Tehran’s denials, stoking fears of a confrontation in the vital oil shipping route....
The deployment of 14,000 additional American troops to the Persian Gulf region since the spring has probably not dissuaded Iran from planning a major attack on the scale of the recent missile and dron...
By New York Times News Service/Eric Schmitt
in Bahrain
Three Iranian vessels tried to block a tanker passing through the Strait of Hormuz but backed off when confronted by a Royal Navy warship, the British government said on Thursday, raising the stakes i...
Major airlines from around the world on Friday began re-routing their flights to avoid areas around the Strait of Hormuz following Iran’s shooting down of a US military surveillance drone there, as ...
India on Thursday expressed its concern over the volatility in oil prices following rising tension in the Strait of Hormuz and urged Saudi Arabia to keep the price at reasonable levels. Saudi energy m...