The Pentagon said yesterday that it had no plans to relocate from its Al-Udeid control centre in Qatar to the Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina. The statement...

The Iranian government announced on Monday that it had received messages from Saudi Arabia through mediators, though it did not disclose the mediators or the content of the messages....

Iran’s oil minister, Bijan Namdar Zangeneh, has ordered his country’s energy sector to raise its alert levels against cyber and military attacks that could target the oil industry. Zanganeh’s remarks came...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has warned of a “total collapse” of the global economy due to ongoing tension with Iran. Speaking in an interview with CBS yesterday,...

Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit yesterday Turkey and Iran over claims that they interfered in the internal affairs of Arab states, the New Khaleej reported. During...

A British-flagged tanker that was detained by Iran for 10 weeks, docked in Dubai on Saturday, after a standoff that has stoked tensions along a vital global shipping route...

The Iranian ambassador to Baghdad disclosed on Friday that his country is to target US forces in Iraq, if it were to be subjected to any attacks, RT reported....

On Friday, the Iranian president Hassan Rouhani revealed via his official website, that the US have offered to lift all sanctions imposed on Tehran, in return for holding discussions....

Tensions between Iran and the US are heating up, as demonstrated by this week’s proceedings at the United Nations General Assembly. The Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani, refused to engage...

The European Union has warned Iran that the 2015 nuclear agreement is on life support and in danger of being ripped apart unless Tehran changed its course. In the...

It is hard to view US President Donald Trump’s Iran policy as anything but an own goal. His decision to unliterally withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal and embark...

War, wrote the 19th century Prussian General and military strategist Carl von Clausewitz, is an “act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.” This is an...

Iran has launched an inspection of security at its key Gulf oil and gas facilities, including preparedness for cyber attacks, the Oil Ministry news agency SHANA said, following media...

Iran has committed a further breach of its nuclear deal with major powers by enriching uranium with advanced centrifuges, and plans to install more of those advanced machines than...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday urged caution over blaming Iran for the 14 September attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities. Speaking during an interview with Fox News, Erdogan...

Iran said it is ready to accept changes to the 2015 nuclear deal if US sanctions are lifted, Ali Rabiei, the spokesman of President Hassan Rouhani, said yesterday. According...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday gave the State Department the authority to bar senior Iranian officials and their family members from entering the United States as immigrants or nonimmigrants,...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani demanded on Wednesday that the United States “pay more” for any agreement that goes beyond the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that Washington abandoned, Reuters reports....

Saudi Arabia and the United States (US) have called on the Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan, to help defuse tensions with Iran. Khan yesterday said that he was “acting...

Iran’s response to any negotiation under sanctions is “negative,” said the nation’s President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday, urging the US to return to negotiations, Anadolu reports. “On behalf of...

Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi is today visiting Saudi Arabia to meet King Salman and his son Crown Prince Muhammad to discuss bilateral relations and regional tensions. Such tensions...

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday denounced Iran’s “bloodlust” and called on other nations to join the United States to apply pressure on Iran after attacks on Saudi oil...

The September  14 attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities had no monetary impact on Saudi Arabia, the kingdom’s central bank governor said in an advance copy of an interview provided...

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has criticised the European states who were part of the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, accusing them of failing to honour their commitments, and said...

Two rockets were fired at central Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, which houses foreign embassies and government buildings, yesterday but there were no casualties or damage caused, Reuters reported security services...

Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif announced that the Houthi militia has weapons belonging to the late Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, with Saudi funding, and that they...

French President Emmanuel Macron said he would meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Monday and US President Donald Trump on Tuesday as he seeks to defuse tensions between Washington...

US President Donald Trump responded positively to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s idea of creating a new nuclear deal with Iran, saying that he respected Johnson and was not...

The detained British-flagged tanker Stena Impero is “free to leave,” Iran’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Hamid Baeidinejad, said on Twitter on Monday, says Reuters. “The British-flagged tanker ‘Stena...

Syria said on Monday the work of any new constitutional committee should be free of foreign intervention, suggesting Damascus remains insistent that a long-awaited step in a stalled peace...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has raised the prospect of giving military assistance to Saudi Arabia days after the US announced that it too was increasing its military build...

The attack on the two Saudi Aramco facilities on 14 September has raised tension in the Middle East. Although Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility, Washington is accusing Iran...