By Anadolu Agency Kuwait Petroleum Corporation announced that a giant Kuwaiti crude oil tanker, Al Salmi, was attacked early Tuesday by an Iranian drone while positioned in the anchorage area of Dubai Port in the United Arab Emirates. It said the tanker came under attack at 12:10 a.m. local time (2010GMT Monday). The vessel was

By Anadolu Agency The Pentagon is considering a plan to divert weapons from Ukraine to the Middle East, as the US war with Iran reaches the one-month mark, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Thursday. Sources told the Journal that the war with Iran has depleted some of the US military’s most critical

By Anadolu Agency US Senator Bernie Sanders said Tuesday that he would “absolutely not” support a proposed $200 billion funding request for the Iran war, vowing to introduce a measure to block arms transfers to Israel. “Absolutely not…In fact, we’re going to bring a joint resolution of disapproval in a couple of weeks which will

Credit Photo/AA By Xinhua News Agency U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that Washington had reached “major points of agreement” with Iran and was in contact with “a top person,” even as Tehran denied any direct or indirect communication with the United States. Trump told reporters the two sides were “going to get together” by

By Xinhua News Agency Yemen’s Houthi group said Saturday that it is closely monitoring the developments in the Strait of Hormuz, and would take “appropriate action” in the face of unfolding events in the region. The group said in a statement that the United States has placed itself in a “strategic predicament,” and is attempting

By Anadolu Agency On the eve of a planned visit, Human Rights Watch on Friday has called on Hungarian authorities to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he enters the country. The visit, set to start Saturday, comes weeks before Hungary’s April 12 general elections. “Despite its move to leave the ICC (International Criminal

By Anadolu Agency Iran is not currently engaged in any negotiations with the United States, a senior Iranian parliamentary official said Thursday, while warning that any country allowing its territory or bases to be used against Iran would be treated as an enemy. Ebrahim Rezaei, spokesperson for the assembly’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission,

By Anadolu Agency Israel is led by a network that considers itself superior to others and is gradually dragging the region toward a disaster, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday. “We all know that the attacks targeting Gaza first, then Yemen and Lebanon, and most recently Iran, are not solely motivated by security concerns,”

Smoke rises in the Fujairah oil industry zone, caused by debris after interception of a drone by air defenses, according to the Fujairah media office, amid the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran, in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, March 14, 2026. By Reuters Gulf Arab states did not ask the U.S. to go to war with Iran,

By Reuters Several U.S. allies said on Monday they had no immediate plans to send ships to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, rebuffing a request by President Donald Trump for military support to keep the ​vital waterway open. Trump called on nations to help police the strait after Iran responded to U.S.-Israeli attacks by using