The Trump administration should embrace the opportunities offered by postwar Syria and take the pressure campaign to Iran and Russia.

Imam Khomeini challenged the established world order and the two ... noting that their influence would spread from the Indian subcontinent to Turkey and southward through the Arabian Peninsula to the ...

Most of the conflicts in the Middle East take place in Syria, Iraq, Palestine and Yemen, but the strings are mostly pulled by ...

"Free of conflict, Tehran immediately struck up a friendship with Hamas – despite its being a Sunni organization rather than ...

With mountains like the Zagros and Alborz ranges, the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Lut Desert, and lush landscapes in the ...

“We should try hard to export our revolution,” Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini declared ... and could affect its neighbors in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Israel. The rebel victory sounded ...

Despite a relatively slow year in OFAC sanctions enforcement, OFAC closed 2024 with a string of settlements in five cases, including its second ...

Salman Rushdie’s novel ‘The Satantic Verses’ hadn’t been sold in India, the country of the author’s birth, for 36 years, ...

Soon after the novel was published, Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa on Rushdie ... murdered and 37 dying in an arson attack in Turkey. Rushdie himself was attacked on stage at ...

Iran is weaker and more vulnerable than it has been in decades, likely since its decadelong war with Iraq or even since the ...

That was a homegrown revolt by Sunni Islamists backed by Turkey, and it’s part of a broader decline of Shia power in the ...