Leaders from 12 Western Hemisphere nations met at Trump National Doral Miami for the Shield of the Americas Summit to promote ...

The name Iran comes from the Indo-Iranian roots of the people who built early Persian civilisation.

Barry Rosen and John Limbert were among 52 people held at the US embassy in Tehran from November 1979 to January 1981 ...

The Kurdish people are an ethnic minority group in the Middle East without an independent state.

A stateless ethnic group of more than 30 million people, their homegrown militia has a reputation as an effective fighting force ...

Pakistan's efforts to preserve close ties with President Donald Trump are being put to the test after protesters stormed the ...

Who are the Kurds, and why are some of them opposed to the Iranian regime? What is their association with the US? We explain.

How the Book of Esther uses letters to safeguard Jewish identity and language during exile and empire.

Iran has launched operations targeting Iranian and Iraqi Kurdish groups in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in neighbouring ...

By Joseph Tulloch Over the past week, Iranian forces have launched an operation targeting Kurdish groups in the ...

The Washington Post is under fire after its obituary for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described the longtime authoritarian ...