The Battle of Cape Passero (1940) unfolded in the early hours of October 12, during World War II. British cruiser hms Ajax, on a scouting mission after a Malta supply operation, encountered seven ...

Iran vowed to respond by striking energy infrastructure in the Gulf and Israel, and U.S.-linked companies in the region.

In May 1941, the German Kriegsmarine launched Operation Rheinübung, a breakout into the Atlantic. The newly commissioned ...

Attacks by the U.S. and Israel on Iran, and Iranian missile and drone attacks on neighboring countries, have disrupted oil ...

The story of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee in 1939 remains one of the most cited lessons in the law of neutrality. During her commerce-raiding mission in the South Atlantic and Indian ...

The US is planning to deploy a third aircraft carrier in the Middle East amid the war with Iran. Aircraft carriers, one of ...

The Royal Navy is in a parlous state, and Britain's failure to deploy forces to defend its bases in Cyprus just exposed that ...

Top 10: World War 2 British planes that deserve much greater fame ...

Less than 1 000 dead so far, but Iran's missiles, drones and regime resilience keep the conflict alive.

There are only two confirmed and one alleged incidents of warships being targeted and sunk by submarine-fired torpedoes and those have been controversial ...

The March 4 incident in the Indian Ocean marked the first time an American submarine had torpedoed an enemy vessel since the ...