Iran backtracks some more after comments by its top diplomat about country's missiles being up for negotiations

An Iranian news agency quotes a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying Iran helped an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz amid U.S. concern that Tehran seized one there

Concern grows over UAE-based oil tanker that stopped transmitting its location over 2 days ago in Strait of Hormuz amid US-Iran tensions

Greek Cypriot leaders on ethnically split Cyprus have turned down a renewed proposal by breakaway Turkish Cypriots to form a joint committee on managing natural gas discovered offshore the east Mediterranean island nation

Turkey says the European Union's approval of an initial set of sanctions against Ankara won't deter it from pressing ahead with efforts to drill for hydrocarbons off the island of Cyprus

The head of Gibraltar's government says an Iranian supertanker seized last week by the British navy on suspicion of carrying Iranian crude to Syria was loaded with 2.1 million barrels of light crude oil

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is again calling for "maximum restraint" in the Persian Gulf region and warning all parties that a new confrontation "would be a catastrophe."

A former leader of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard says the Islamic Republic should consider seizing a British oil tanker in response to authorities detaining an Iranian oil tanker off the coast Gibraltar

Egypt has hiked up fuel and cooking gas prices again as part of austerity measures designed to overhaul the country's ailing economy

Iran has broken the limit set on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers