"Purges have increased across the board, but the PLA is a massive outlier. Most of its senior leadership has been decimated ...

Trump added the the surge in oil price is a very small thing compared to the consequences the world might face if Iran build ...

Trump acknowledged that markets had shown some reaction but described it as a minor consequence compared to the security stakes involved ...

Donald Trump said the conflict involving Iran could end soon and would result in a safer world, adding that economic impacts like market fluctuations are a “small price to pay” for security.

The heightened volatility in markets has tended to benefit the U.S. dollar as a store of liquidity. The United States is also ...

Latest attacks come as US allies rebuff Trump’s calls to help secure the Strait of Hormuz and global oil crisis deepens. Follow for live updates.

A blast was heard close to the US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, as videos geolocated by CNN appear to show air defense systems engaging a projectile. Follow for live updates.

Britain has warned Israel not to pursue a ground offensive in Lebanon where the humanitarian situation is “already deeply alarming”.

The Strait of Hormuz is a difficult, almost impossible, problem to solve through military means alone,” Hinote said. Keeping the waterway open militarily, he said, would mean taking and holding the ...

The Middle East has been plunged into chaos after the US and Israel carried out joint strikes on Iran last month, killing 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and sparking a war. In ...

Just two weeks into the war that he started, Donald Trump has resorted to begging other countries for assistance in securing the Strait of Hormuz. Speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One on ...