WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump hosted a pair of Arab Gulf leaders at the White House on Wednesday as violence between ...

Flight data map shows the aircraft's mission near Iran just weeks after Israeli and U.S. attacks on its nuclear program ...

The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council has stressed that preserving the security of the Persian Gulf ...

Iran said it had seized a foreign oil tanker in the Sea of Oman, suspected of carrying around 2 million liters of smuggled fuel, according to local media. Newsweek has reached out to the Iranian ...

Iran has seized a foreign tanker accused of smuggling two million litres of fuel through the Gulf of Oman, a regional justice ...

A plan by Oman is being closely watched by other governments in the region that are preparing for a future beyond oil.

The Persian Gulf has been in the spotlight for its geopolitical significance for a long time. Spanning some 250,000 square kilometers, the Persian Gulf is bounded by the Arvand River in the north, ...

President Donald Trump will refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia in an upcoming announcement about his trip to the Middle East next week, two officials claim. Trump ...

The Persian Gulf crisis has not ignited a major price spike, thanks to growing oil production in the U.S. and a slowing in overall demand. By Stanley Reed So far, this isn’t your typical oil ...

The US military is sending forces to the Persian Gulf in response to Iran's seizure of oil tankers. The deployments have been compared to a US operation in 1987-1988 to defend tankers from Iranian ...

The Persian Gulf has been widely known by that name since the 16th century, although usage of “Gulf of Arabia” and “Arabian Gulf” is dominant in many countries in the Middle East.

Veiled beneath the Persian Gulf, a once-fertile landmass may have supported some of the earliest humans outside Africa some 75,000 to 100,000 years ago, a new review of research suggests.