Oil prices ease as mediators propose US-Iran ceasefire
Oil prices fell on Tuesday, with markets weighing reports of mediation efforts between the U.S. and Iran against an exchange of fresh attacks between the two and threats of ...
US strikes Iran for ninth day; Iran says two oil tankers in Strait of Hormuz exploded and immobilised
U.S. forces hit Iran for a ninth consecutive day on Monday as concerns grew over shipping through the Strait of Hormuz after Iran said two oil tankers had exploded ...
Jordan denies evacuation order for port of Aqaba
Jordan said no order was issued to evacuate Aqaba airport or port on Sunday after the US embassy in Amman reported that both locations had been cleared due to a “...
Israel to receive more US refuelling planes as Iran attacks intensify
Israel is preparing to receive more US refuelling aircraft, an Israeli military official said on Sunday, as attacks launched by the United States and Iran have escalated over the past ...
US renews strikes on Iran after two military personnel killed by Iranian attack
The U.S. said it had completed an eighth straight night of attacks against Iran after earlier announcing that two U.S. military personnel were killed in Jordan and another ...
US and Iran each attack infrastructure in risky escalation
The United States struck bridges and an airport in Iran on Friday and Tehran responded by hitting a power and desalination plant in Kuwait, as the warring foes risked further ...
Iran, US escalate in Gulf but release of American signals path to climb down
Iran and the United States exchanged intensified fire on Thursday in a week-long escalation that has all but torn up last month’s truce, but Iran’s release of a ...
Iran warns Trump against striking infrastructure, calls Strait of Hormuz a ‘red line’
Iran said on Thursday that the Strait of Hormuz was an inviolable “red line”, warning that if U.S. President Donald Trump carried out his threat to attack Iran’s ...
US launches multiple strikes on Iran, which retaliates against US targets in region
The U.S. launched two waves of attacks on Iran’s coastal defenses and missile sites on Wednesday after reimposing a naval blockade of its ports, while Iran struck back ...
Iran threatens to shut Bab el-Mandeb seaway after closing Strait of Hormuz
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to close “all other export corridors that benefit the U.S. and its allies”, Iranian media reported, after Iran shut the Strait ...
US airstrikes target Iran for fourth consecutive night
US forces are carrying out airstrikes in Iran, a US official told Reuters on Tuesday, with the strikes reportedly continuing for around two hours as tensions between Washington and Tehran ...
Trump drops Hormuz shipping fee as US prepares Iran port blockade
US President Donald Trump abandoned plans for a 20% fee on cargo passing through the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, replacing the proposed charge with trade and investment agreements involving Gulf ...
Iran and US stage new attacks, battle over control of Strait of Hormuz
Iran fired ballistic missiles at a U.S. air base in Jordan on Tuesday and the United States attacked Iranian targets for five hours in a battle for control of ...
UAE says Iranian missiles struck oil tankers in Strait of Hormuz, one sailor killed
One Indian crew member was killed and eight others were wounded when two Emirati oil tankers were struck by Iranian cruise missiles in the Strait of Hormuz, the United Arab ...
U.S. military renews strikes on Iran while tankers come under attack in Strait of Hormuz
The U.S. military carried out a third consecutive night of strikes against Iran on Monday as President Donald Trump reinstated a blockade of Iranian shipping and proposed charging a 20% ...
Trump says US reinstates blockade of Strait of Hormuz after new clashes with Iran
President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States was reinstating its blockade of Iranian shipping in the Gulf and would ensure the Strait of Hormuz stays open after the ...
Cypriot-flagged ship ‘attacked’ in Strait of Hormuz
A Cypriot-flagged ship was “blatantly attacked” by Iranian forces while attempting to traverse the Strait of Hormuz, the United States’ defence department’s central command said on Sunday.
It explained ...
US seeks Iranian pledge to free up Strait of Hormuz
Iran’s foreign minister arrived in Oman on Saturday to discuss arrangements for the safe passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media said, with Washington seeking ...
Iran’s Supreme Leader pledges revenge for slain father and predecessor
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said on Saturday that avenging his slain predecessor and father was “the demand of the nation” and “must certainly” take place, according to ...
‘The Cease Fire is OVER!’ says Trump, but talks continue
President Donald Trump said the US and Iran had agreed to continue talks despite an escalation of hostilities this week but he declared that the ceasefire reached between the two ...
US issues fresh Iran-related sanctions, website shows
The United States on Friday issued new Iran-related sanctions following Iran’s resumption of attacks on international shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, the Treasury Department said.
The sanctions target ...
British bases ‘lied to us’ about listening antennae, mayor says
Kourion mayor Pantelis Georgiou on Thursday accused the British bases’ administration of “lying” to his municipality over the placement of communications antennae in the Akrotiri base area.
“We now have ...
US military says it is carrying out fresh strikes on Iran, after Trump says accord is ‘over’
The U.S. military said it was launching fresh strikes on Iran aimed at keeping the critical Strait of Hormuz open to traffic, hours after President Donald Trump declared that ...
Thousands march as Khamenei’s funeral procession crosses into Iraq
Mourners marched through Iraq’s holy city of Najaf on Wednesday, following the coffin of slain Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as his six-day funeral procession, which drew huge crowds ...