A Kremlin spokesman said the Russian government is discussing “possible options for assisting Cuba in the difficult situation it finds itself in.”

Iran has effectively closed the critical Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for a joint US-Israeli attack on February 28, but video purportedly showing an American tanker struck by an Iranian missile as

About 90 ships including oil tankers have crossed the Strait of Hormuz since the beginning of the war with Iran.

The International Energy Agency will hold an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday to discuss a possible release of emergency stockpiles.

A commercial oil tanker was set ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after it was struck by an Iranian suicide drone, the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Saturday, with a US Navy mission to safeguard ships through the region possibly still weeks away.

Authorities say the French navy has intercepted a tanker suspected of helping Russia dodge oil sanctions over its war on Ukraine.

The oil tanker's arrival comes just four days after reports said it, initially headed for China, made a sudden U-turn and redirected towards India

Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed responsibility for an attack on an oil tanker in The Gulf on Thursday. Iran's state news agency IRNA reported that the Safesea Vishnu

The ship was struck near an Emirati port, in the first such attack in five days. The United Arab Emirates also said it was intercepting Iranian drones and missiles.

Indian survivor Bikram Ghosh recounts a harrowing missile/drone attack on the oil tanker MT Skylight near the Strait of Hormuz. He describes the chaos, abandoning the ship, and the subsequent rescue by the Omani Navy amid the West Asia conflict.

A Russian crude oil tanker, Aqua Titan, originally en route to China, has reached India's Mangalore. Several Indian tankers, including the Shivalik, the Nanda Devi and Jag Laadki, have successfully crossed the war zone and reached India.