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 ...

PHILIP H. GORDON was National Security Adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris from 2022 to 2025 and the White House Middle ...

It was clear what was happening: the tensions with Iraq had finally snapped, and Saddam Hussein was now launching a full-scale invasion of Iran. What followed was eight years of tank battles, trench ...

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

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

Chaos theory, originally a mathematical concept, describes systems so sensitive to initial conditions that even the smallest perturbations can lead to vastly different outcomes—an idea often called ...

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

THESE are the five ways Donald Trump could wipe out Iran after the US President issued strict orders to “obliterate” the ...

Riyadh is concerned that Iran may be more inclined to pursue a nuclear weapon and hopes to leverage its close ties with Trump ...

Sadegh Adham shares how his childhood experiences during the Iran-Iraq war shaped his art, exploring themes of imperfection, ...