For more than a decade, after the government of Iran deemed his work “propaganda against the system,” the filmmaker Jafar ...

The Iranian middle class, long a force of political moderation, stability, economic growth, and the base of the country’s reform movement, is shrinking fast under the pressure of Western sanctions, ...

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

If Iran and Israel return to war, Central Asia will face not just economic fallout, but the risk of entanglement in a broader conflict.

In another one of their “history and tradition” tests, the justices stand poised to upend laws all across the country.

The former NATO supreme allied commander discussed the world's flashpoints as the first speaker in this year's Distinguished ...

Geography, demographics, religion, technology, and a state’s institutions determined why certain states exercised power and ...

Shirin Behzadi's first job in Los Angeles — a gas station attendant — was so dangerous she had to stay in a bulletproof ...

A weapons smuggler, who used a fishing boat to ship ballistic missile parts from Iran to Houthi rebels in Yemen, has been ...

John Bolton has pleaded not guilty in the Justice Department case accusing him of sharing classified information.