The Iran war is no longer only a military, energy, and shipping crisis. Scientists and maritime analysts are warning that the ...

The Iran War’s effects are moving past economics and into the environment. Multiple instances of what appear to be oil ...

Direct attacks, oil spills and the threat of nuclear waste are putting the Gulf region’s desalination plants at risk—here’s why that matters ...

Iranian authorities have accused Kuwait of carrying out an unlawful maritime operation in the Persian Gulf, alleging that Kuwaiti forces attacked an Iranian vessel and detained four Iranian nationals ...

At every difficult moment in their long history, the Persian people have fought to preserve what is theirs. The Trump ...

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pointed to US and Israeli actions as the cause of the Gulf crisis. He stated Iran did ...

A cargo ship caught fire Sunday after being hit by an unknown projectile off Qatar's coast, the British military said.

Iran’s armed forces said a U.S. blockade of vessels entering or exiting Iranian ports would constitute an illegal “act of piracy.” If the country’s ports are threatened, “no port in the Persian Gulf ...

Trump may be bluffing, but just over a century and a half ago, there was a conflict that in some ways could mirror Trump’s strategy. In 1856, the Persian shah Nasir al-Din was just 25 years old when ...