Amid rising tensions with the US, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has increased its military presence in the Persian ...

The Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, is rarely far from the center of global tensions. A major shipping route that handles around 26% of the world’s oil trade, ...

Tokyo donated $13 billion to the U.S.-led multinational forces during the Persian Gulf War, but the act was dismissed as “checkbook diplomacy” by the rest of the world because Japan provided ...

A top-secret document from August 1990 was compiled shortly after Iraq invaded Kuwait, triggering the Persian Gulf War. The document summarized the various moves made by Washington in 1987 during ...