With the Strait of Hormuz blocked, Iran must rely on the sea to its north for its essential trade. Since the outbreak of the Iran War, most international attention has focused on the Persian Gulf, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A tanker anchored off the jetty at the Ceyhan crude oil terminal near Turkey The report noted that trade in the Caspian Sea is ...

Iran has turned to alternative trade to bypass the US blockade along the Strait of Hormuz, making use of northern sea ports, trucking through land borders and sending cargo through a rail system bound ...

Bright orange flashes and a roiling funnel of black smoke filled the air as Israeli fighter jets struck Iran’s naval command center at the port of Bandar Anzali. Israel said it also destroyed several ...

The recent attack by Ukraine of a Russian missile-carrying corvette stationed in the Caspian Sea more than 1,500km away from Kyiv has put the spotlight on this large, often overlooked body of inland ...

The inland sea beyond US naval reach is emerging as a key Russia-Iran wartime artery Add as a preferred source on Google File picture: A Caspian Stream tanker at Korchagin's oil field in the Russian ...

June 8, 2026: The Caspian Sea is actually a landlocked saltwater lake surrounded by Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan. Targets are only 1500 to 2000 kilometers from Ukraine. The ...

The Russian foreign minister said the Caspian region should remain a zone of peace and cooperation ASTANA, April 30. /TASS/. The US and Israeli aggression against Iran has negatively affected the ...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Akbota Karibayeva Meyer is a Research Fellow at the Caspian Policy Center and a geopolitical risk analyst specializing in energy security, governance and political economy in Central ...

The Caspian Sea, the largest inland body of water on Earth, is shrinking. Not fluctuating, not entering another natural cycle, but shrinking.