China’s backing of the UAE in a long-standing territorial dispute over three Persian Gulf islands has unsettled Tehran.

While evading new US sanctions on Iran, adjusting to changes in Syria and expanding military footprint with key Arab partners ...

US commandos have carried out a rare high seas raid, intercepting a cargo vessel in the Indian Ocean and seizing what ...

South Africa will host the multinational naval exercise Will for Peace 2026 in early January, when Chinese, Russian, and ...

China has rattled Tehran by again backing the United Arab Emirates’s claim over three Persian Gulf islands controlled by Iran.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping welcomes foreign ministers from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Tuesday. - Russian Ministry of Foreign ...

When Russia sought assistance from China, North Korea and Iran amid its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, some Western officials expressed concern about the formation of a new axis against Western ...

China’s inroads in the Middle East demonstrate how the region is still a critical front in the era of US-China competition.

For years, China has been buying discounted Iranian oil in bulk, and the U.S. sanctions on Tehran have barely put a dent in that trade, analysts said, thanks to a shadow supply chain of transshipment ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday called for China to prevent Iran from closing the Strait of Hormuz, one of the most important trade routes for crude oil in the world. Stream Los Angeles ...

Welcome back to The Farda Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that tracks the key issues in Iran and explains why they matter. I'm RFE/RL correspondent Kian Sharifi. In this edition, I'm looking into how ...

One country outside the Middle East that's closely following the war between Israel and Iran, and any possible ceasefire, is China. That's because China is the largest importer of Iranian oil, and ...