While most people associate imperial rule with endogenous empires, Barfield focuses on the exogenous examples—the "shadow ...

Iranian singer Shervin Hajipour was sentenced to prison for his Mahsa Amini protest anthem. He has reportedly been pardoned, ...

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar,” a radio program created by CBS in 1949 that found a devoted listenership in Farsi, has returned ...

Iranian and European officials will meet at the U.N. General Assembly in New York next week in a test of whether the two ...

Amid Israel’s effort to return tens of thousands of its citizens to their homes in the north, the Jewish state reportedly launched an operation to knock out Hezbollah’s infrastructure in Lebanon.

In this book, Blain Auer demonstrates how Persian kingship was a transcultural phenomenon. Describing the contributions made by kings, poets, historians, political and moral philosophers, he reveals ...

Conservationists at Persepolis, Iran's most iconic ancient site, are waging a delicate battle against an unlikely adversary: ...

Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman is extracting significant ... wider regional conflict while empowering its arch-regional rival Iran and its proxies in the "Axis of Resistance." ...

The European Union said Monday that its allies had shared intelligence that Iran had supplied Russia with ballistic missiles, and warned of new sanctions on Tehran if the deliveries were confirmed.

But Nasreen’s dream collides with bitter reality in Iran where the country’s Islamist rulers have decreed that women cannot perform in public. A Sisters’ Tale premiered last month at the ...

Iran has confirmed that it is sending ballistic missiles to Russian forces fighting in Ukraine in exchange for soybeans and wheat. Despite official Iranian denials, an MP admitted to the deal less ...

"Unilaterally lifting sanctions on Iran and Russia is the exact kind of ... U.S. sanctions were "hurting the Iranian people far more than their rulers" and "elevating the likelihood of a regional ...