The helicopter crashed in foggy conditions in a mountainous area in northern Iran as they returned from an event along Iran's border with Azerbaijan. Earlier, IRNA reported that the president of ...

As oil prices soar, currencies weaken and diplomatic tensions simmer, Israel’s latest escalation with Tehran is already being felt across a continent courted by Tehran and vulnerable to global volatility.

The U.S. is evacuating nonessential staff from the embassy in Baghdad and families members of military personnel from several bases in the Gulf amid growing concerns about the security situation, according to two State Department and Pentagon officials.

The United States is reducing the number of people deemed nonessential to operations in the Middle East, the State Department has announced.