Explore Project Plowshare, an ambitious idea to create a new Suez Canal using nuclear detonations. This video delves into the ...

For much of the modern era, the Middle East has occupied centre stage in global geopolitics, owing to its strategic geography ...

Since the start of the war in Gaza, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have ramped up attacks on ships in the Red Sea, ...

As unfortunate as it is for the locals or Americans who travel to such risky areas, Al-Shabaab is a regional African problem, ...

During the last decades and during the cold war, all the Canadian government choose not to increase the expenses in defenses ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on a Liberian-flagged cargo ship in the Red Sea killed ...

The CEO of Egypt's third-largest bank tells Al-Monitor why he is hopeful about the country's economic recovery.

In 1956, the struggle over the Suez Canal erupted into a crisis that exposed deep fractures in global power. Britain and France tried to assert control—but Nasser had other plans. What followed ...

US President Donald Trump proposed to allow US commercial and military vessels free passage through the Suez Canal in a conversation with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi earlier on 1 April, Al ...

The construction of this canal would have one effect that the pride of England might object to -- it would, in military phrase, TURN the Straits of Gibraltar.

The time it takes for fresh produce from Kenya to be exported to Europe by sea has gone up significantly due to the logistical challenges shippers face following the Suez Canal's blockage.