An ancient oceanic plate under modern-day Iraq is breaking off horizontally, researchers have shown in a new study. This huge ...

Deep beneath the Earth's surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate is breaking off horizontally with a tear progressively ...

This is a satellite view of the Zagros mountain belt in western Iran. The range forms part of the most extensive belt of water-soluble gypsum on Earth, stretching from Oman to Pakistan ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

Sixty-six people are feared to have been killed in a passenger plane crash in the Zagros mountains in Iran. The Aseman Airlines plane, en route from Tehran to the south-western city of Yasuj ...

For centuries, the monumental complex of Qaṣr-e Šīrīn, located in the province of Kermanshah, Iran, has been the subject of ...

Abstract: Crustal receiver functions (RFs) computed from the records of 45 temporary seismological stations installed on a 620-km-long profile across central Zagros provide the first direct evidence ...

The Aseman Airlines passenger plane came down in the Zagros mountains on Sunday ... The crashed plane was 25 years old, Iran's civil aviation organisation said. Sixty passengers, two security ...

In Iran a priest named Zoroaster reformed the Indo-Iranian ... the Medes and the Persians. Media lay in the central Zagros Mountains; Periss (the name is the Greek form of Fars) lay in the southwest.

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The Islamic Republic of Iran Navy has received its first home-grown signals intelligence vessel, named Zagros.