France wants to ensure the safe passage of ships through the strait but is wary of getting involved in the war.

A view of a jet on flight deck of the Charles de Gaulle at Subic Bay, 23 February, 2025 ...

The French armed forces say that France’s aircraft carrier strike group is moving south of the Suez Canal and into the Red Sea in preparation for a potential future mission as part of a French-British ...

Triggering a global energy and food crisis, and missile attacks on US allies such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE, were not top of mind for the war planners. Are there positive spinoffs from the Iran war?

Transiting through the Suez Canal, more ships are arriving at the Saudi port of Jeddah on the Red Sea. Read more at ...

It is now clear that the war against Iran is going badly for Donald Trump. Binyamin Netanyahu and the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) may be determined to carry on, but Trump is the war leader in deep ...

When Egypt closed the Suez Canal for five months in 1956, it triggered events that shrunk the global standing of Britain’s pound sterling, inaugurated the petrodollar age and demonstrated how a small ...

France sent its flagship aircraft carrier through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea Wednesday en route to the troubled Strait of Hormuz where it appears poised to escort merchant ships stranded there ...

When the future American strategists and policymakers will look back on the third decade of this century, they will find it increasingly difficult to distinguish between the ignominious retreat (by ...

Danish shipping group Maersk beat first-quarter profit forecasts on Thursday and maintained its full-year earnings ⁠guidance, ...

Analysts and historians are finding parallels between Britain's Prime Minister Anthony Eden's Suez crisis in October 1956 and the US President Donald Trump's February 28, 2026, move on Iran. Then, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran with more bombing on Wednesday (May 6, 2026) if it doesn’t reopen the Strait of ...