Before Persia became an empire, it was the land of the Elamites. This episode traces Iran’s early civilizations through the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — After the U.S. struck Iranian nuclear facilities last week, questions were raised by experts and officials about how much damage was caused by those strikes. This comes after a ...

Three years ago, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman named Mahsa Jina Amini was fatally beaten by Iran’s morality police. She’d been ...

A novel about identity and a missing youth, a history of the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and a picture book celebrating the underappreciated belly button are this year's winners of the Kirkus Prize, ...

Demonstrators carry signs and wave the Iranian flag as they rally outside the White House on June 22, 2025, to protest the U.S. military strike on three sites in Iran early Sunday. Jose Luis Magana / ...

Israel and Iran opened a new chapter in their long history of conflict when Israel launched a major attack with strikes early Friday that set off explosions in the Iranian capital of Tehran. Israel ...

The U.S. aerial strike against Iran was conducted under such unique circumstances that it offers as many questions as lessons. The Israeli air campaign, conducted exclusively with fighter jets, had so ...

Russia is mediating between Iran and Israel while Donald Trump tries to remake the Middle East with the US-backed Gaza peace ...

This combination of book cover images shows "The Slip" by Lucas Schaefer, left, and "King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation" by Scott ...