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

Generally speaking, starting a war out of the blue is a bad idea. This is the lesson, if such was needed, of the utterly ...

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

First gas deliveries to start on 1 March and will be sent via Iran, but long-term growth in supplies expected to require new ...

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

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

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.

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

In early 2025 Iran and Pakistan agreed to cooperate on economic, diplomatic and military matters. Each country has different definitions of these items. While both nations border Afghanistan, Iran has ...

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

John Quincy Adams famously warned against the US going abroad in search of “monsters to destroy,” but while claiming to ...

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