Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they were closing the strait until the U.S. blockade is lifted. Two ships reported being hit ...

The Siege of Candia stands as one of the longest and most grueling conflicts in history not only of Greece but the world.

Hong Kong collector and patron Alan Lau has developed an AI curatorial system, a new record set for South Asian art, and a ...

Since it was first built in 1875, the Sassoon Dock in India’s financial capital of Mumbai has been many things: a gateway for ...

MUMBAI: Since it was first built in 1875, the Sassoon Dock in India’s financial capital of Mumbai has been many things: a ...

The First Opium War began as a trade dispute, but it quickly exposed a deeper power struggle between Britain and Qing China.

In China around 1839, large quantities of opium were circulating, with an estimated 40,000 boxes of opium being brought in annually via the port of Guangzhou. A huge market had formed, with some ...

One month into the United States and Israel’s war on Iran, the Middle East is starting to look significantly different — and the effects are being felt across the world. Energy prices are soaring, ...

WASHINGTON — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was “the first” person in the Trump administration to push for war with Iran, the president claimed Monday. Trump revealed during a public safety roundtable ...

The first week of the U.S.' war with Iran cost around $11.3 billion, military officials told members of Congress in a briefing this week, according to sources familiar with the meeting. That figure is ...

WASHINGTON — Defense Department officials told senators in a closed-door briefing Tuesday that they estimate the first six days of the war in Iran cost more than $11.3 billion, according to three ...

Pentagon officials told lawmakers during a briefing on Tuesday that the approximate cost of war against Iran is more than $11.3 billion in the first six days of action, a source briefed on the figure ...