In this BBC Persian film for the BBC World Service, former child soldiers share their untold stories and deeply personal ...

The Gulf states have strengthened their influence in Syria, Lebanon and Gaza as Iran’s regional power declines ...

Türkiye on Tuesday confirmed efforts were underway to form a coalition against the Daesh terrorist group with Iraq, Jordan ...

It was clear what was happening: the tensions with Iraq had finally snapped, and Saddam Hussein was now launching a ...

Mohsen M Milani’s book charts the Islamic Republic’s rise to ‘peak power’ and the fall-out from Hamas’s assault on Israel ...

Daryush Nourbaha knows he’s fortunate. As an American, he’s had security and opportunities. Now he hopes he can pay some of ...

A showdown is building between Communist China and the West. From rising tensions over Taiwan, trade, TikTok, fentanyl, ...

With the Arabs essentially taken out of this great game, it now comes down to an ancient animus: the Turkish Sunni Muslims versus the Persian Shiite Muslims for control over this region.

The Axis of Resistance, a network of Iranian backed militias and political organizations, is in crisis due to events and ...

Hezbollah has told Newsweek it rejected the Israeli military's recent claims that an elite Iranian unit was illicitly using ...

Iran claims to produce a majority of its weapons, but this self-sufficient defense strategy leaves its conventional forces ...

Action plan to boost scientific cooperation On the first day of the second Iran-Iraq Science Week, held from January 18 to 20 in the city of Karbala, Iraq, the two countries signed an action plan to ...