Historian, academic, author Ruby Lal, with her books Empress (2018), Vagabond Princess (2024) and Tiger Slayer (2025). | ...

Although much of the regular Iranian navy is destroyed, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps can still deploy small, speedy ...

For all Trump’s predictions about warming US-China relations, there is no country on Earth that has a worse track record of ...

Some Iran-linked or sanctioned vessels that have left the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz have stopped or turned ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will make a decision about how the U.S. government will refer to the body of water now commonly known as the Persian Gulf when he visits ...

Historian and author William Dalrymple on writing and reading good Indian history, and why he sometimes turns to Google ...

Listen to the Trump administration’s assessments of the war in Iran, and you could be forgiven for believing that ...

Put simply, a threat to a whole civilization falls into an entirely different category from a threat to a barbaric regime ...

Early reports are indicating that traffic in the strait has ground to a halt since the blockade was announced.

The US military will begin a blockade of all Iranian ports and coastal areas, as President Donald Trump seeks to pressure ...

Nearly six weeks of war in Middle East saw more than 60 energy facilities struck across at least nine countries in the ...

Attar’s poetry does not speak in political terms but in such fraught times, his work, translated from the original Persian, acquires an immediate force and clarity ...