The following is the Dec. 30, 2024, Congressional Research Service report, Iran: Background and U.S. Policy. From the report ...

The fate of an Italian journalist detained in Tehran and an Iranian engineer imprisoned in Italy on a U.S. warrant have grown ...

Iranians have used their now-ancient F-14s quite effectively in combat. The warbird has an all-time air-to-air kill ratio of ...

However, with the collapse of the Islamic Republic’s hegemonic project, the Middle East is poised for significant changes. The immediate fallout will be most visible in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, where ...

From the largest war in Europe since World War II continuing in Ukraine to a series of escalations upending the Middle East, ...

The involvement of Hezbollah in the Gaza conflict further compounded Iran’s woes. Few expected Israel to deliver such a ...

The Assad regime’s collapse in Syria means the entire Iranian axis has been disrupted, and ‘as we learned today, it even ...

This post has been updated with additional information on the timing of the incident. Two U.S. Navy aviators are safe after ...

JERUSALEM—President-elect Donald Trump’s slated revival of his maximum pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran coupled with a chronic gas shortage in the nation could be the one ...

Richard Nephew is Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University at the Center on Global Energy Policy and an Adjunct Fellow ...