The chairman of Britain's House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said Saturday that it would be “extremely unwise” to seek a military solution to free an oil tanker seized by Iran. "If it has been taken to Bandar Abbas then that's an important Iranian military port, and I think any...

There will be "serious consequences" if Iran does not release a British-flagged tanker seized in the Gulf, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said. The Stena Impero's owners say they have been unable to contact their vessel, which had 23 personnel on board and was "heading north towards...

Syrian activists and their supporters around the world have been on a rolling hunger strike to protest the Assad regime and Russia's continuing assault on the Idlib province, which has left hundreds of people dead and displaced over 350,000 people since it began in April 2019. The...

The tranquil winding roads of Lebanon’s mountainous interior are far from the tense waters of the Persian Gulf where President Donald Trump says America came within 10 minutes of war with Iran a few weeks ago. And where, he said on Thursday, the U.S. shot down an Iranian drone. But if...