Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Wednesday designated Yousef Huneiti as the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces, the state-run media reported.  Maj. Gen. Huneiti -- former commander of Royal Jordanian Air Force -- replaced Lit. Gen. Mahmoud Friehat with a Royal...

The top military adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that Tehran would not negotiate with the United States under any circumstances, an apparent hardening of its position as the Gulf tanker crisis escalates. The Swedish operator of a British-flagged...

Qatar-based Al Jazeera TV on Wednesday quoted the military adviser to Iran’s supreme leader as saying that any change in the status of the Strait of Hormuz, which Tehran says it protects, would open the door to a dangerous confrontation. The channel also quoted Hossein Dehghan, a...

 At least 22 Polish citizens were injured, including three seriously, after a bus crashed down a wooded slope near the southern Turkish resort of Kemer on Tuesday, according to a Polish ministry and Turkish and Polish media. “Seven people are still in hospital. Amongst these seven,...