Iran runs security in the Strait of Hormuz and will no longer tolerate “maritime offences” there, its foreign minister said on Monday, a day after it seized a second oil tanker near the strategic waterway that it accused of smuggling fuel. Tanker traffic through the Strait has...

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Monday reiterated that Germany would not join a U.S.-led naval mission in the Strait of Hormuz, adding that Berlin favored a European mission but warned it was rather difficult to make progress on that. “At the moment the Britons would rather join an...

Over 2,200 Jewish settlers forced their way into East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in July, according to a Palestinian NGO on Monday. “Around 2,233 Jewish settlers guarded by Israeli security personnel stormed the compound in July,” the Wadi Hilweh Information Center...

Iraq on Sunday said it has no links with the oil tanker seized by Iran in the Persian Gulf for allegedly smuggling fuel. In a statement, Iraq's Oil Ministry said the ship seized in the Persian Gulf is a small vessel which the ministry does not deal with in the process of oil marketing....