It is time to abandon this problematic approach to the Middle East. Syria provides some hard lessons. In 2011, the Syrian people protested peacefully against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. It was Iran ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has spent almost four decades as Shi'ite Iran's supreme leader building a regional power to rival the ...

Roxana Saberi felt like she was back behind bars in Tehran. As she watched Israel’s bombing of Evin prison, the notorious detention facility at the core of Iran’s political repression, she shuddered ...

The "friends" most discussed by netizens include the late Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, former Iraqi president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and Zimbabwean President ...

The question now is what a shaken Islamic Republic in dire economic straits will do with what Iranian President Masoud ...

In just 12 days, Israel eliminated the leadership of Iran’s military, air force, and intelligence agency; bombed the country’s nuclear sites; and took out dozens of missiles and launchers on the ...

The current conflict between Israel and Iran is a high-stakes gamble where the ultimate outcome may be determined by which ...

It’s no exaggeration to say that the most extreme and reactionary government in Israel’s history is in part a byproduct of ...

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Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to ...

Assad’s leadership quickly descended into authoritarianism, marked by mass repression and a devastating civil war. This video ...