In this BBC Persian film for the BBC World Service, former child soldiers share their untold stories and deeply personal ...

Generally speaking, starting a war out of the blue is a bad idea. This is the lesson, if such was needed, of the utterly ...

Mohsen M Milani’s book charts the Islamic Republic’s rise to ‘peak power’ and the fall-out from Hamas’s assault on Israel ...

The United States of America has maintained some degree of military presence ever since March 19, 2003, when the Iraq War, ...

Daryush Nourbaha knows he’s fortunate. As an American, he’s had security and opportunities. Now he hopes he can pay some of ...

Iraq is set to become a hot zone of proxy fighting between Turkish-backed Islamist militants and Iranian-backed ones.

Yuval Vagdani woke up on Jan. 4 to a flurry of missed calls from family members and Israel's Foreign Ministry with an urgent ...

A showdown is building between Communist China and the West. From rising tensions over Taiwan, trade, TikTok, fentanyl, ...

Here’s a look at the life of the late former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Personal:Birth date: April 28, 1937 Death date: December 30, 2006 Birth place: Tikrit, Iraq Birth name: Saddam Hussein Abd ...

Hezbollah has told Newsweek it rejected the Israeli military's recent claims that an elite Iranian unit was illicitly using ...

Türkiye on Tuesday confirmed efforts were underway to form a coalition against the Daesh terrorist group with Iraq, Jordan ...

John Quincy Adams famously warned against the US going abroad in search of “monsters to destroy,” but while claiming to ...