Iran’s foreign minister said the crew of a seized Portuguese-flagged ship linked to Israel have been granted consular access and are expected to be freed, Iranian media reported on Saturday. Iran's Revolutionary Guards seized the container vessel MSC Aries with a crew of 25 in the Strait of
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday said China and the United States should be partners rather than rivals and help each other succeed rather than hurt each other and engage in vicious competition. Xi Jinping said this during the meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Great Ha
A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.
Yemen's Houthis said they targeted the MSC Darwin ship in the Gulf of Aden on Thursday, as the Iran-aligned group resumed attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea region in solidarity with Palestinians fighting Israel in the Gaza war. The Houthis also fired a number of ballistic and winged missi
US troops have begun construction of a maritime pier off the coast of Gaza that aims to speed the flow of humanitarian aid into the enclave when it becomes operational in May, the Pentagon said on Thursday. President Joe Biden announced the pier in March as aid officials implored Israel to ease ac
