A state of emergency has been declared in Russia's western city of Engels, according to the region's governor. It comes after ...

Jimmy Carter was a former one-term governor from Georgia, almost unknown nationally, when he broke through in Iowa and New ...

Much like Hezbollah miscalculated with its 15-month-long war of attrition against Israel, Yemen’s Houthi rebels risk being ...

An Iranian oil tycoon who’s managed to quietly embed himself in the heart of the Western financial system is among a cadre of businessmen handling weapons deliveries across the Caspian Sea to ...

Iran has summoned the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, who represents US interests in the country, along with a senior Italian diplomat, to protest the recent arrest of two Iranian nationals by US ...

Although Iran has one of the biggest supplies of natural gas and crude oil in the world, it finds itself in a full blown energy emergency, coming just as it also suffers major geopolitical setbacks.

The Department of State is today imposing sanctions on four entities that have transported Iranian oil and identifying six vessels as their blocked property. The United States is committed to ...

The Department of State is imposing sanctions on four entities engaged in the Iranian petroleum trade and identifying six vessels as blocked property. Iran's oil exports are enabled by a network of ...

Sanctions hit three vessels trading Iranian oil, funding Tehran's nuclear program, ballistic missiles, and proxies like Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis. The United States imposed sanctions on ...

Syria's largest oil refinery, Baniyas, has reportedly halted its operations after losing crude shipments from Iran, its primary supplier. The Financial Times cited Syrian refinery's General ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has tightened its grip on the nation’s oil industry and controls up to half the exports that generate most of Tehran's revenue and fund its ...