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U.S. forces are continuing to deploy to the Middle East for potential operations as American and Iranian teams prepare for negotiations in Pakistan this weekend. Jet fighters and attack planes ...

Several cruise lines have canceled their voyages or changed their itineraries in the Middle East due to ongoing safety issues amid the Iran conflict. Celestyal Cruises — an Athens-based company ...

The U.S. is sending thousands of additional U.S. service members to the Middle East aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, even as President Trump on Wednesday claimed Iran has asked the ...

Discussions about Israel’s role in the Middle East still revolve around threats and responses. Yet recent developments suggest that Israel isn’t only reacting to events, but is increasingly shaping ...

In a speech to the nation on April 1, President Donald Trump spoke of the Iran war, and the contest for control of the Strait of Hormuz, as if their outcome had little bearing on the market for oil ...

The State Department on Tuesday warned Americans in the Middle East to evacuate ahead of President Trump’s threatened bombings on a wide range of infrastructure in Iran, escalating tensions in the ...

As the world waits to see whether the U.S. military will launch major strikes on Iran's critical infrastructure, concerns of retaliation from the Middle Eastern country continued to circulate on April ...

Alaa Badarneh/EPA, Ronen Zvulun/AP, Alex Brandon/ AP POOL, Wikimedia, IRGC office via EPA, Royal Thai Navy/HANDOUT EPA, The Conversation On February 28, the US and Israel launched a war against Iran ...

WASHINGTON, April 6 (Reuters) - The war in the Middle East will lead to higher inflation and slower global growth, the head of the International Monetary Fund told Reuters on Monday, ahead of a ...

The Middle East war has closed the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most critical oil chokepoint, creating the largest fuel supply disruption on record. Oil traders are rerouting tankers to unusual ...

April 1 (Reuters) - The heads of the International Energy Agency, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank on Wednesday said they will form a coordination group ‌to maximize their response to the ...