The President announced his warships will immediately stop marine traffic entering or leaving the vital pinchpoint with the ...

The team and other passengers had to evacuate the aircraft so explosives officers could board to sweep it.

U.S. officials badgered Japan to send minesweepers to the Persian Gulf in 1987, according to diplomatic documents released by the Foreign Ministry on Dec. 21. While then Prime Minister Yasuhiro ...

TOKYO -- The Japanese government is considering plans to help sweep mines from the Strait of Hormuz once a ceasefire is reached in the Iran war, at a time when the U.S. Navy is planning to retire the ...