According to local reports, prison officials stepped in to rescue the Swiss national at the Semnan prison, some 180 ...

Lebanon lawmakers elected army commander Joseph Aoun as the country’s first president in more than two years, picking a ...

A Swiss national who was arrested and accused of spying in Iran died by suicide in prison on Thursday, according to Mizan ...

President Joe Biden will give a farewell address to the nation, ahead of his term ending and President-elect Donald Trump’s ...

Germany has welcomed the release of a German-Iranian rights activist from prison in Iran and her return to Germany.

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link A top Iranian general has accused Russia of lying to Tehran by saying its jets were attacking Syrian rebels while they were instead bombing ...

His win ends a lengthy power vacuum and represents a pivot by Beirut toward the West, with Tehran-backed militant group Hezbollah weakened by last year’s bruising conflict with Israel.

Oil refiners in India and China have increased crude purchases from the Middle East and other regions amid concern that ...

Trump arguably brought this situation upon himself: His decision in 2018 to abandon an Obama-era nuclear deal in favor of a so-called "maximum pressure" campaign "prompted Tehran to accelerate its ...

Workers in Tehran’s main bazaar staged a rare strike to protest high inflation late last month. Video of striking merchants showed a crowd of men arguing that “the constantly rising price of ...

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, will be ...