The Gulf Cooperation Council — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — was founded in 1981 in the shadow of the Iran-Iraq war and already had disputes heading into the current conflict. The Iran war is bringing those to the fore.

“The central danger is miscalculation. The conflict could become region-wide with very little warning,” founder of Q Advisory John Keith King said.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian drones heavily damaged a passenger terminal at Kuwait's main airport Wednesday, killing one person, wounding dozens and briefly closing the airfield — the latest in back-and-forth attacks by Iran and the U.S. that ...

Two oil tankers carrying Saudi crude to Asia reversed course in the Red Sea on Tuesday after threats from Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis, as a widening ​Middle East conflict disrupted shipping through two of the world's most critical energy chokepoints.

Follow The Hindu LIVE for the latest updates on the West Asia conflict, as Iranian state media reported explosions in Qeshm and Bandar Abbas along the Strait of Hormuz.

The attack threatened to all but halt traffic through the crucial waterway again four months into the war with the Islamic Republic. President Donald Trump, in Ankara for the Nato summit, lashed out at European allies while gushing over Syria’s new president — a former jihadi — as the conflict continued to ripple through the global economy.

Iranian strikes on data centers in the Gulf states have spotlighted possible vulnerabilities in the U.S. government’s effort to foster American AI investments there and draw the region away from

Explosions were heard near a U.S. base in Iraq, and Iran said it targeted Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait as the 21-week war intensifies.