TEHRAN, Nov. 12 (MNA) – Two violating tankers caught fire after striking a naval mine in a prohibited zone east of the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday afternoon , Iran's Army said. In a statement, the Army's public relations office said the vessels had ignored warnings and switched off their radar sys»»»

Iran’s renewed ship attacks in Strait of Hormuz could galvanize a regional response it would be hard-pressed to repel Iran’s move on Hormuz is ultimately a short-term maneuver. And if it doesn’t get its act together soon, the whole region could turn against it. The new wave of US attacks against Ir»»»

Clearing mines is a slow, high-risk operation that involves finding and destroying the explosives using specialised techniques. Last week, the United States and Iran signed a framework agreement aimed at ending the US-Israel war on Iran and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Navigation through the str»»»

PANAMA CITY: Around 1,500 ships and their crews are trapped in the Gulf due to the Iranian blockade in the strait of Hormuz, the secretary general of the UN’s International Maritime Organisation (IMO) said in Panama on Thursday. The war in the Middle East, unleashed February 28 by Israel and the Un»»»

Abuja: Nigerian airlines continued flying Thursday despite threatening a shutdown over sky-high jet fuel prices roiling the industry in Africa's top crude producer and most populous nation. It is the second time a strike has been averted in as many weeks, with government talks with airlines having »»»

Donald Trump’s acceptance of a two-week ceasefire in Iran has exposed fresh divisions in his Make America Great Again (Maga) movement, with some supporters expressing vindication and others accusing the US president of betrayal. The US and Iran both claimed victory after the two countries agreed to»»»

Follow our live coverage here. TEHRAN - Iran deployed troops and offered a bounty as it launched a hunt for a US pilot whose jet Iranian media said had been downed by the Islamic republic’s air defence systems on April 3. US Central Command (CENTCOM), responsible for military operations in the Midd»»»

Representative image A plane was reportedly targeted by a US airstrike as it was flying towards India to collect humanitarian aid. "Mahan Air aircraft was hit by the US in an airstrike at Mashhad Airport. The plane was reportedly scheduled to fly to Delhi for humanitarian aid," said Iran sources, a»»»

Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates were among more than 20 countries on Saturday that said they would contribute to efforts to ensure safe passage in the Strait of Hormuz, condemning Iran’s closure of the vital waterway. “We condemn in the strongest terms recent attacks by Iran on unarmed commerc»»»

An Iranian official said Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei declared it is ‘not the right time for peace’ until the US and Israel concede. (AFP pic) TEHRAN: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has rejected proposals for reducing tensions or for a ceasefire with the US that were »»»

With the distribution of the pink Saheli cards — meant to replace the pink tickets currently used by women to travel for free on Delhi buses — descending into chaos in several centres, the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) on Friday assured women that they can continue to use the pink paper tickets»»»

BANGKOK, Thailand – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently held discussions with Iran’s ambassador following an incident in which the Thai-flagged cargo vessel Mayuree Naree sustained damage near the Strait of Hormuz. The vessel had departed from Khalifa Port in the United Arab Emirates and was c»»»

Tehran [Iran], March 12 (ANI): As the West Asia conflict entered the thirteenth day, Iran's new Supreme Leader struck a tone of defiance in his first address to the Iranian people. Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei called for the continued blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a move that will raise tensions.»»»

Esmaeil Kosari, who is a member of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, told Lebanon’s Al-Mayadeen TV that Iran never abandoned the negotiating table. “It was the other side that violated agreements and even attacked Iran”, Kosari added. He said under such circu»»»