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Britain's Princess Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, announced Monday that they are expecting their third child.

The U.S. military is denying Iranian claims that it struck a Navy ship in the Middle East as President Trump launches a program to help vessels stuck in the Strait of Hormuz.

Projectiles struck a ship in the narrow Strait of Hormuz, the British military said Monday, the second such attack in hours as tensions remain high between Iran and the United States.

The Navy will deploy guided-missile destroyers, more than 100 land- and sea-based combat aircraft, and several sea and air drones to guide international commercial ships out of the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Central Command officials said Sunday.

The United States will launch an effort on Monday to "guide" stranded ships from the Iran-gripped Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump said, giving few details about what could be a sweeping effort to help hundreds of vessels and some 20,000 ...

The State Department late last week approved arms sales worth more than $8 billion to key U.S. partners across the Middle East.

Iran's latest proposal to the United States calls for issues between the two countries to be resolved within 30 days and aims to end the war rather than extend the ceasefire, according to Iran's state-linked media.

President Trump says he will pull more U.S. troops from Germany after an initial reduction of 5,000, while Republican leaders in Congress say they're "very concerned" about the move and the signal it sends to America's adversaries.

Two U.S. service members were reported missing Sunday in Morocco, during major annual American military exercises in western Africa, Pentagon officials said.

The merry chirping of birds echoed through towering trees in a small woodland in northeastern Serbia. Down on the ground, animal tracks could be seen imprinted in the moist grass and moss.