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Iran threatened ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday as the U.S. began to guide vessels through the waterway, a bold operation President Trump launched to break an impasse in peace talks and reduce the economic fallout from the war.

He had met his 6-year-old son only once. A few days together in a life otherwise spent apart.

The United Arab Emirates' eastern emirate of Fujairah says an Iranian drone sparked a fire at an oil facility.

The Israeli government has approved the purchase of two U.S.-built fighter jet squadrons for the Israeli air force.

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.