The Ford's crew left Norfolk, Va., on June 24, initially bound for the Mediterranean. More than nine months later, the crew is now in the Red Sea for the war with Iran with no clear return date.

India and Pakistan mobilized their respective fleets to protect nationally-owned tankers in the Gulf of Oman as traffic trickles through the Strait of Hormuz in the single digits. Warships from India ...

Explosions are reported on two more foreign tankers in the Persian Gulf killing at least one person, port authorities say.

Defense Department officials told Congress that the estimate excludes many costs tied to the military buildup. Airstrikes were shaking Beirut and Tehran, and the price of oil surged past $100 a barrel ...

The study is being conducted by management consulting firm Kearney and has been commissioned by the MoD’s Department of Defence Production (DDP) — which oversees all 16 defence public sector units ...

Admiral Naveed Ashraf, Chief of the Naval Staff of Pakistan, and Rear Admiral Shahin Mammadov, Commander of the Azerbaijan Naval Forces, meet at Naval Headquarters in Islamabad to discuss maritime ...

An Iranian warship was sunk by an American submarine off the coast of Sri Lanka on Wednesday, the US defence secretary has confirmed. Pete Hegseth said the Iranian ship was hit by a torpedo fired from ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sought to calm concerns about a potential energy shock, arguing that oil markets are well supplied even as tensions escalate in the Middle East. He said the government ...

New Delhi: Afghanistan’s former spy chief Amrullah Saleh has presented an analysis of Pakistan’s new strategy to deal with the Taliban, saying that it marks a significant shift in Islamabad’s approach ...

Iran's top security official Ali Shamkhani, whom Israel said was killed on Saturday, rose through the ranks of the Revolutionary Guards and now heads the Defence Council. There was no confirmation ...

SAN ANTONIO – The controversial, former head of San Antonio’s fire union is no longer charged with stalking the current San Antonio fire chief. Christopher Steele, 59, was arrested in May 2024 and ...