At a thumbs-up sign from a sailor, a U.S. Harrier fighter jet takes off from the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer in the Arabian Sea as an oil tanker passes, a nautical mile away. The patrol is “standard” but the situation - growing tension between the United States and Iran - is not....

Iran's Revolutionary Guard have seized a foreign oil tanker accused of smuggling oil with a crew of 12, Iran's state TV reported Thursday, just days after an oil tanker based in the United Arab Emirates disappeared off trackers in Iranian territorial waters. The Panamanian-flagged oil...

Britain is rightly concerned about protecting its goods in the Strait of Hormuz, defense minister Penny Mordaunt said Thursday following tensions with Iran over the passage of vessels in the Gulf. Relations between Tehran and the West have been increasingly strained after Britain seized an...

Turkey says Washington's decision to exclude Ankara from an American-led fighter jet program goes against the "spirit of alliance" and is calling for it to reverse the decision. In a major break with a longtime ally, U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday said Turkey is...