As tensions in the Middle East surged again over the weekend, the Iran-backed Houthis threatened to close the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a crucial oil shipping lane that still serves crude flows from the ...

Follow NBC News live coverage of the U.S. seizing an Iranian ship, Trump's blockade and the Strait of Hormuz, peace talks in Pakistan and Israel-Lebanon.

Senior Iranian lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi, deputy head of parliament''s national security committee, has warned that Tehran could escalate its response to the US naval blockade, raising the prospect ...

Major General Ali Abdollahi of the Iranian military says Trump's "Project Freedom" would constitute a violation of the ...

US President Donald Trump is meeting senior national security officials to discuss a new proposal from Iran that could lead ...

With the Iran war paused halfway through a 2-week ceasefire, President Trump is again voicing optimism over the potential for a deal to end it for good.

President Donald Trump said he was giving Iran's leaders time to “come up with a unified proposal” in peace talks, but that the U.S. naval blockade will continue. Coverage on this blog has ended.

A naval blockade of Iran ordered by President Donald Trump has begun after the U.S. and Iran failed to come to an agreement during direct peace talks in Pakistan over the weekend.

Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Wednesday dismissed claims that US measures to halt Iranian oil sales ...

On paper, the United States and Israel hold overwhelming advantages in air power, intelligence, naval reach, and precision ...

The president said the truce in Lebanon would last three more weeks. Halting the war between Israel and Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon has been considered critical to advancing any peace ...