* I understand and agree that registration on or use of this site constitutes agreement to its user agreement and privacy policy. U.S. President Donald Trump says that the war with Iran began because ...

A heated debate erupted in the European Parliament in Strasbourg as lawmakers accused the European Union of hypocrisy over the ongoing Iran war. Belgian MEP Marc Botenga sharply criticised EU leaders ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin An informal system of “permits-for-passage” through the Straits of Hormuz is emerging after Tehran has started to grant navigation permission to oil tankers headed to “friendly ...

Ukraine struck a vital Russian oil hub on Thursday, causing a large fire and damaging Moscow’s logistics in the latest attack ...

The recent escalation of tensions in West Asia, marked by Iran’s attacks on US military bases in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and its retaliation against Israel, raises fundamental ...

The US plans to release 172 million barrels of oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve, more than 40% of a wider release coordinated with allies, to help dampen prices spiked by supply disruptions ...

The war with Iran that President Donald Trump launched on Feb. 28 stands as a remarkable outlier among major American conflicts over the past 90 years. Decades of polling data going back to World War ...

At the height of the first Iraq War in 1991, we struck the Amiriya bomb shelter in Baghdad, killing hundreds of civilians. According to the U.S. government, the bunker was being used for military ...

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, May 2026, pp. xx-xx Special Report By Mustafa Fetouri WHEN THE COFFIN of Saif al-Islam Qaddafi was lowered into ...

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the U.S. would contribute "a little bit" to the International Energy Agency's (IEA) plan to release a record 400 million ...

Zak Jones is a dual Canadian-American citizen who served as a medic in the U.S. Army, and the author of the novel Fancy Gap. It happened 15 years ago, but I’ll never forget the excitement of one young ...