A U.N. fact-finding mission into Iran's treatment of women reported that the Islamic republic was resorting to extreme ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

Iran increasingly relies on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country's mandatory headscarf in public, even as hard-liners push for harsher penalties for t ...

"He founded what we call the Achaemenid Empire, which is really the empire during which time we have the story of Purim.