Persian mythology sits at the heart of 30 Birds, and the reason Zig's been called here in the first place is to witness the awakening of Simurgh, an enormous phoenix-like creature whose god-like ...

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A video showed the woman sitting in her underwear on steps at Islamic Azad University before walking down a nearby street An Iranian woman will not face charges after she stripped to her underwear ...

Canadian authorities foiled an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Irwin Cotler, 84, justice minister and attorney general from 2003 to 2006, and rights activist, who has been a strong critic of ...

A series of operations killed many of the Lebanese group's leadership, including former leader Hassan Nasrallah, as well as operational commanders on the ground, forcing the group to rely more on ...

Trump, met with Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations on Monday in New York in a session that two Iranian officials described as a discussion of how to defuse tensions between Iran and the ...

An Iranian man was executed Wednesday in Ghezel Hesar prison outside Tehran after a previous attempt to hang him in April was stopped at the last minute, according to Iran Human Rights (IHR).

US President-elect Donald Trump nominates Army veteran, author, and Fox News host Pete Hegseth as defense secretary. Hegseth, a decorated Army National Guard veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, is known ...

A well-known Iranian human rights activist has killed himself in protest at what he called the dictatorship of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In a post on social media, Kianoosh ...

INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi (left) meets with then-Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Tehran, in May. Can Iran’s nuclear threat be ...

The United States military has again carried out air strikes in Syria targeting “Iranian-aligned targets” following a recent rocket attack against US forces at a base in Syria’s northeastern ...