The natural and formalistic collide in 'Cutting Through Rocks,' a Sundance documentary about the first councilwoman in an ...

Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni’s Cutting Through Rocks follows Sara Shahverdi, a middle-aged divorcee in a remote and ...

Sundance: Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni’s precisely lensed documentary follows the first councilwoman in the history of ...

Israel and Hamas reached a deal to resolve a disagreement over the exchange of a female civilian hostage that had threatened ...

Goshkhan is a village in the Hawraman region of Kurdistan province, Iran. Every winter, villagers come together to cook a ...

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with concerts and lion dances, enjoy a discounted meal during Winter Restaurant Week, or immerse yourself in a game festival.

Hamas has announced the names of the next four hostages it will release this weekend as part of a ceasefire deal with Israel.

The sudden expansion of Israeli security operations in the West Bank has killed at least 10 people and follows the start of the delicate ceasefire process in Gaza, by which Israeli hostages are ...

Israeli forces launch operation in West Bank to eradicate terrorism, linked to broader strategy countering Iran.

Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past week.

Senior Taliban officials in Afghanistan say they hope for better relations with Iran after a visit from its foreign minister.

Iraq looms as a complex test for the new Trump administration. Will it be a hawk that pries loose a weakened Iran's grip or an isolationist that withdraws the remaining American troops ...