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The Ross explosion hit close to home for my family because the building that blew up used to be a Market Basket supermarket, where my father worked for years and my mother and I loyally shopped for ...

President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States had heavily bombed military targets on Iran's oil hub Kharg Island and the US Navy would soon begin escorting tankers through the Strait of ...

Explosions are reported on two more foreign tankers in the Persian Gulf killing at least one person, port authorities say.

The message attributed to Mojtaba Khamenei was read by a presenter on Iranian state TV. He has not been seen in public since succeeding his father.

More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world.

Days after Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei took over from his dead father, and suffering from injuries sustained in a US strike, he released his first message of vengeance for his war-ravaged homeland.

Iran claimed it struck a US aircraft carrier with drones as it retaliated against a joint US-Israeli attack in late February ...

Around 90% of Iran's oil exports pass through Kharg Island, but the US president says oil infrastructure was not targeted.

The reports of attacks on commercial ships came after the US said it "eliminated" 16 Iranian mine-layers in the area. Elsewhere, two drones were downed near Dubai airport.

A day after war broke out in the Middle East, Iran claimed it had struck the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in ...

An Iranian commander threatened Monday to attack any ship crossing the Strait of Hormuz in a move that could choke about a fifth of global oil supplies and send oil prices soaring. "The strait (of ...