Gholizadeh also declared that Iran would reclaim its former territories in the Caucasus—lost during the Russo-Persian Wars (1651-1828)—and raise the Shia flag there, Iran International ...

The push comes with a backdrop of seismic shifts in the Middle East that have seen Iran's armed allies in Gaza and Lebanon ...

The Houthis, however, emblazoned across their flag “A curse on the Jews ... a working alliance with the Houthis gave Iran the chance to extend their “Shia crescent” to the Arabian ...

China is responding to Trump's energy-centric executive actions with a global diplomatic blitz. China courts the Middle East without push back from Washington.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the IDF would only withdraw from Lebanon if the Lebanese Army carried out its ...

"Death, death to Saddam!" chanted Imam Husham Al-Husainy through a megaphone at a pro-war rally broadcast by C-SPAN in Washington, D.C., in October 2002, countering a nearby anti-war rally as the ...

From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little ...

Qaani’s visit to Baghdad, far from signaling strength, reveals the regime’s desperation to cling to its crumbling empire.

“By carrying an IS flag with him during the attack ... IS counts both America and Iran’s Shia theocratic regime as mortal enemies. The memorial bombing was followed by an attack on a Roman ...

Within territory under its control, it killed and otherwise abused Shia Muslims ... Today the most visible sign of IS is the IS flag. It has a distinctive stark black banner with white Arabic ...

Whenever I visit my grandmother’s house during Muharram, a holy month for Shia Muslims, I see its members handing out food and sweets. The group has branches in most mosques across Iran: within a ...