Last year was one to forget for Iran as the country’s clerical establishment suffered a series of setbacks at home and abroad. Analysts say without major shifts in policy, the new year will only ...

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Lebanon's newly elected president, Joseph Aoun, said Thursday that "a new phase" has started for the war-ravaged country and ...

Iran is reeling from a cratering economy and stinging military setbacks across its sphere of influence in the Middle East.

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A top Indian foreign ministry official has met with Afghanistan's acting foreign minister as the countries without formal ...

President-elect Donald Trump and his key advisors have embraced the “Return to Peace through Strength,” sometimes known as “America First,” ...

Iran executed at least 901 people in 2024 – including 31 women, some of whom were convicted of killing their husbands while ...

In 1994, Bill Clinton was in office in the midst of a standoff with North Korea over the communist country's nuclear program. The U.S. was floating the idea of sanctions – and even considered a ...

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Human rights groups accuse Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of using capital punishment as a tool following nationwide ...