Follow The Hindu live as tensions escalate in West Asia after the U.S. launches strikes on Iran following an attack on a ...

Iran said it was responding to the attack with strikes on U.S. assets in the Middle East. The defense ministries of the United Arab Emirates and Qatar both said they were intercepting strikes.

American officials said they were trying to safeguard maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran said it had responded by ...

Iran began a mass funeral for late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday. The weeklong ceremony is expected to ...

The funeral for Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has started, months after his death in an airstrike on the first ...

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre (UKTMO) said Saturday that it has received a report of a tanker being hit with a projectile “within the Strait of Hormuz.” U.S. Central Command said ...

Iran says its strikes were response to US airstrikes US says its attack was a response to Iran's strike in strait Each side says the other is violating interim ceasefire Bahrain condemns Iranian drone ...

The U.S. struck Iran on Friday to respond to a drone attack a day earlier on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz. It's the most significant test yet to an interim understanding reached a week ago by ...