TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Saturday his country is in a full-scale war with the U.S., ...

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After the fall of the Soviet Union, a shared Persianate cultural heritage did not translate into Iranian influence in Central ...

Mojtaba Ghahramani, a provincial chief of the justice department, said the oil tanker was carrying 25,000 barrels of smuggled ...

Oman’s Duqm port cannot replace India’s dependence on Iran’s Chabahar. But it can help challenge Pakistan in the Indian Ocean ...

Through Google Earth, this video maps the Israeli advance into Syrian-controlled territory day by day. Beginning with the ...

Iran isn’t powerful because it’s rich — it’s powerful because it’s strategic. This video breaks down how geography, proxy ...

Nowhere is this more evident than in the treatment of the Eastern Mediterranean, a region whose dynamics are increasingly misread when folded uncritically into the broader MENA frame. The distinction ...

Rainfall this week on Iran's Hormuz Island has briefly transformed the coastline of the famed Red Beach into a striking natural scene.

Many of the world’s best-known countries did not always carry the names we use today. Over the last century, political shifts ...

Rows of worshippers, some with their faces raised toward the sky, others with their heads bowed, prayed for rain at a mosque in Tehran earlier this month. Theirs is an increasingly desperate plea. The ...