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 ...

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

The United States of America has maintained some degree of military presence ever since March 19, 2003, when the Iraq War, ...

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.

The parliamentary speakers of Iraq and Iran met in Tehran on Monday to discuss legislative cooperation on regional border ...

It was clear what was happening: the tensions with Iraq had finally snapped, and Saddam Hussein was now launching a ...

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

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

As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel prepares to meet with President Trump, the question of whether to strike ...

On February 2, a drone targeted the Khor Mor gas field in the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Dana Gas, which runs the ...