"The Iranian strike on the American base in Qatar demonstrated how beholden the Gulf Arabs are to the United States." ...

Saudi Arabia is the largest oil exporter that relies on the Strait and accounts for nearly 40% of the oil exports that pass ...

Iran targeted the U.S. military's largest Middle East air base on Monday, June 23, in an apparent response to Saturday ...

The US just launched 'Operation Midnight Hammer,' targeting Iranian nuclear enrichment and storage sites. Click here for a ...

In 2006, a commission of UN experts, geographers, geologists, archaeologists and historians concluded, after analysing more than 6,000 maps of the area, that the term Persian Gulf was historically ...

The term ‘Arabian Gulf’ (versus) Persian Gulf is really only applicable to the Navy since its commands in their area would be the only naval forces publishing stories in the region. In most other ...

The Persian Gulf is a body of water that separates Persia (Iran) from the hub of the Arab world. Indeed, changing the name of the Persian Gulf will be a slap in the face to the Islamic Republic ...

Trump reportedly considering renaming the Persian Gulf after ‘Gulf of America' scuffle Google Maps lists body of water as 'Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf).' Displaying both official names when they ...

Google is under fire again due to a change it made on Google Maps, as the application has updated the maps to indicate that the Persian Gulf is also referred to as the Arabian Gulf.

The Persian Gulf name has been used throughout history, in maps, documents and diplomacy, from the time of the ancient Persians, whose empire dominated the region, to the Greeks and the British.

In that period, both the names Persian and Arabian Gulf appear in texts. However, the latter referred to an area that roughly equated to the Red Sea.

Apple Maps only says the Persian Gulf. The US military for years has unilaterally referred to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf in statements and images it releases.