During the Gulf War, the U.S. Air Force faced an impossible challenge: Iraqi command bunkers were buried too deep—sometimes 50 feet underground beneath layers of reinforced concrete—for any existing ...

The military targeting of desalination plants poses a huge risk to water security in the water-scarce Gulf region.

ASHRAFI, Iran, August 27 (UNHCR) - Najem Abood Chowlan and his family have been very busy in the past few weeks packing their belongings accumulated over 12 years in Iran in readiness for their return ...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps said on Saturday it had struck the United States' Juffair base in Bahrain, adding that it had been used to attack an Iranian desalination plant earlier in the day.

Iran has strangled one of the world’s most critical shipping routes, the Strait of Hormuz, by threatening merchant ships and attacking tankers. Iran also has more than 5,000 naval mines in its arsenal ...

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and neighboring countries in the Persian Gulf region use the fossil fuels under their desert lands not only to make money, but also to make drinking water. The ...