Iran is increasingly relying on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country's ...

Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...

- The Christians are split into a number of denominations - some of them tiny communities with ancient roots in pre-Islamic ...

Every spring, as the earth tilts toward balance, millions celebrate Nowruz—the Persian New Year—a 3,000-year-old festival rooted in Zoroastrianism that’s as vibrant as the season it ushers in. Known ...

"What's quite unique to Iran is that Iran retained its civilization and its language, while other languages made way for ...

Just hours after Islamist rebels ousted longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood at edge of the occupied Golan Heights and looked out over ...

Following the collapse of the Assad regime, I ended my article last December with the following paragraph: “The new government must represent all Syrians, ...

The Johns Hopkins University said on Thursday it will slash over 2,000 jobs in the U.S. and abroad after the administration ...

In recent weeks, the plight of a group of Iranian asylum-seekers claiming to be converts to Christianity has been followed by The New York Times, helping to shine a light on a story not commonly ...

A letter U.S. President Donald Trump wrote to Iran’s supreme leader in an attempt to jump-start talks over Tehran’s rapidly ...