Tensions in the region have been rising in recent days as talks between the U.S. and Iran over its rapidly advancing nuclear ...

The United States is drawing down the presence of staffers who are not deemed essential to operations in the Middle East and ...

During his visit to the Middle East in May, U.S. President Donald Trump did several things that few would have predicted ...

Forough Alaei’s stunning photographs of a community of fisherwomen on a remote island in the Persian Gulf.

Four top Princeton University experts sketch a possible regional multinational nuclear consortium whose initial core partners ...

the first Persian empire in history. Greek and Roman geographers, including Ptolemy in the 2nd century, later referred to the Persian Gulf or the Persian Sea. Renowned Arab historians such as Ibn ...

The Persian Gulf is a body of water that separates Persia (Iran) from the hub of the Arab world ... the first king of the Persian Empire, considered the father of the Iranian people, from the ...

As President Trump heads to the Persian Gulf, some ethics experts say his investments there could represent a conflict of ...

This isn't just a name change; it's a geopolitical lightning rod, uniting Iranians in defence of their cultural heritage and exposing tensions with Arab neighbours. The Persian Gulf, named since ...

The map locates the Persian Gulf, and the surrounding countries of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates ... Cyrus the Great ruled an empire that spanned from ...

These names are part of recorded history for centuries. But the naming of the Persian Gulf has been contested by other Arab countries, who also have a long history of being called Arabia.

It found that during the Achaemenid Persian empire, between 559 and ... Amid that backdrop, the name Arabian Gulf was increasingly catching on in Arab circles. Following the Iranian Islamic ...