Maya Mehrara is a News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K.. Her focus is reporting on international news. She has covered Ukraine, Russia, immigration issues, and the revolution in Iran.

The population density in Tehran - 11,969 people per square kilometer - is more than 180 times higher than Iran’s average. More than 20 million daily trips occur in the city, where over 4 million ...

He was helped by Iran, which had sent the battle-hardened Hezbollah militia, a group heavily reliant on Tehran, to join the ... Syria's second largest city. The advance quickly expanded and ...