Iran’s hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has registered as a possible candidate for the June 28 presidential election, seeking to regain the country’s top political position after a helicopter crash killed the nation’s president and seven others
June 02, 2024
A Greek-owned and Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier that came under attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels earlier this week had a cargo of grain bound for Iran
May 30, 2024
Iran has opened a five-day registration period for hopefuls wanting to run in the June 28 presidential election
May 30, 2024
Another U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone has gone down in Yemen as the country's Houthi rebels continued attacks on shipping around the Red Sea over the Israel-Hamas war
May 29, 2024
Missile attacks have damaged a ship in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen
May 28, 2024
Iran has interred late President Ebrahim Raisi at the holiest Shiite shrine in the nation, days after a fatal helicopter crash killed him, the country’s foreign minister and six others
May 23, 2024
Iran’s supreme leader and representatives of allied militia groups prayed over the coffins of the country’s late president, foreign minister and other officials killed in a helicopter crash earlier this week
May 22, 2024
Mourners have begun the days of funerals and processions for Iran’s late president, foreign minister and others killed in a helicopter crash
May 21, 2024
Iran’s first Vice President Mohammad Mokhber has been appointed acting president of the Islamic Republic after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash
May 20, 2024
Iran's state media has reported that Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has died in a helicopter crash that also killed the country's president
May 20, 2024
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has died
May 20, 2024
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and the country’s foreign minister have been found dead hours after their helicopter crashed in fog
May 20, 2024
Iran’s hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi has long been seen as a protégé to Iran’s supreme leader and a potential successor for his position within the country’s Shiite theocracy
May 19, 2024
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other officials apparently has crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of his country
May 19, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi rebels hit an oil tanker in the Red Sea with a ballistic missile, damaging the Panama-flagged, Greek-owned vessel in their latest assault over the Israel-Hamas war
May 18, 2024
President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan has met with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss what the kingdom describes as the “semi-final” version of a wide-ranging security agreement between the countries
May 19, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed the shooting-down of an American drone, hours after footage circulated online of what appeared to be the wreckage of an MQ-9 Reaper drone
May 17, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed targeting a U.S. Navy destroyer and a commercial ship in the Red Sea
May 15, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for two missile attacks in the Gulf of Aden on two Panama-flagged container ships that caused no damage
May 09, 2024
Iran and the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog are still negotiating over how to implement a deal struck last year to expand inspections of the Islamic Republic’s rapidly advancing atomic program
May 07, 2024
The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog will travel to Iran next week as Tehran’s nuclear program enriches uranium a step away from weapons-grade levels and international oversight remains limited
May 01, 2024
A Portuguese-flagged container ship has come under attack by a drone in the far reaches of the Arabian Sea
April 30, 2024
Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, will move its operations to the city-state’s second, sprawling airfield in its southern desert reaches “within the next 10 years” in a project worth nearly $35 billion
April 28, 2024
A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted a vessel in the Red Sea, the latest assault in their campaign against international shipping in the crucial maritime route
April 29, 2024
A private security firm says missiles suspected to have been fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels landed a distance away from a ship traveling through the Red Sea
April 26, 2024
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