A US military refuelling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday, in an incident US Central Command said involved another aircraft but was not the result of hostile or friendly fire. The United States has deployed a large number of aircraft into the Middle East to take part in operatio
US President Donald Trump said the United States would escort vessels through the Strait of Hormuz if needed, adding in a Fox News interview that aired on Friday that the US would strike Iran "very hard over the next week." Asked about helping oil tankers pass through the key shipping strait, Trum
Pakistan bombed the fuel depot of private airline Kam Air near Afghanistan's Kandahar airport, the Taliban said on Friday, a significant escalation in the worst conflict in years between the neighbours despite China's efforts to mediate. Following Beijing's stepped up mediation efforts, no
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Thursday its Navy has hit the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain's Mina Salman port with missiles and drones. Announcing in a statement on its official news outlet Sepah News, the IRGC said it conducted two waves of attacks early Thu
The US and Western allies clashed with Russia and China on Thursday over Iran's nuclear intentions, as Washington sought at the United Nations to further justify the war it launched on Iran two weeks ago. At a meeting of the 15-member UN Security Council, which is chaired this month by the
