For the US this is now a war to open up the Straits of Hormuz and thus the flow of oil, with Asia, Europe and of course ...

The government has been at pains to walk a narrow line between responding to Donald Trump’s request to send ships to help in ...

We spoke to the former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, who is now a trade envoy for Israel.

A reimagining of the classic American story One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is about to take to the London stage. The story, written in the 1960s as a commentary on America’s reckoning with state ...

The US bombs Iran’s key oil infrastructure – Kharg Island – as Donald Trump calls for the UK and allies to help secure the ...

We spoke to Dr Bader Al Saif, who used to be a deputy chief of staff for the Prime Minister of Kuwait. He’s worked in the oil and gas sector and is now an assistant professor of history at Kuwait ...

The Pentagon now admits one of its missiles could have been responsible for a strike on a school in Southern Iran that killed at least 165 people – the majority of them primary school-aged girls.

Amid heightened international tensions, including the Middle East war, Nato is carrying out exercises in the Arctic in ...

Two members of an Iranian Kurdish militia were killed this afternoon when an Iranian drone hit their position in Iraq. It ...

The Petrol Retailers Association has met the Chancellor and energy secretary in Downing Street – despite threatening to pull ...

Reports in US media say a detachment of Marines and a Navy assault ship are on their way to the Middle East. It comes as ...

Leon Panetta served as Defence Secretary and Director of the CIA under President Obama. We spoke to him earlier and began by asking him if he believed the administration had thought through how the ...