Greeks, Ottomans and Portuguese all sought to control the Persian waterway, whose shores were once dubbed the Pirate Coast.

Blocking the Persian Gulf is the oldest trick in the book. Its power hasn’t waned at all. Iran knows this – why didn’t Trump?

Armenia is the most homogenous country in the post-Soviet world, with 98% of its citizens identified as ethnic Armenians.

I did not come to know Iran through think tanks, cable news or the rhetoric of governments. I came to know it through family and personal experience.

A highly abridged monthly version of Dust & Stars.

The sands of Iraq and mountains of Afghanistan reminded the US military that geography played a decisive role in conflict.

The permanent U.S. presence in the Middle East started in the oil-rich Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf. Immediately after ...

US forces were already running out of ground-attack missiles and Israel is about to expend its entire Arrow interceptor ...

An American invasion of Iran would be a strategic catastrophe, a moral failure and a self-inflicted wound from which the ...

Iran continues to launch missile and drone strikes across several Middle East countries as Trump warns over the Strait of ...

As Iran imposes a chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, squeezing the global economy, Trump faces a crisis that echoes one of ...

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news ...