In this BBC Persian film for the BBC World Service, former child soldiers share their untold stories and deeply personal ...

It was clear what was happening: the tensions with Iraq had finally snapped, and Saddam Hussein was now launching a ...

The Gulf states have strengthened their influence in Syria, Lebanon and Gaza as Iran’s regional power declines ...

The parliamentary speakers of Iraq and Iran met in Tehran on Monday to discuss legislative cooperation on regional border ...

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

Hezbollah has told Newsweek it rejected the Israeli military's recent claims that an elite Iranian unit was illicitly using ...

Action plan to boost scientific cooperation On the first day of the second Iran-Iraq Science Week, held from January 18 to 20 in the city of Karbala, Iraq, the two countries signed an action plan to ...

Türkiye on Tuesday confirmed efforts were underway to form a coalition against the Daesh terrorist group with Iraq, Jordan ...

With the Arabs essentially taken out of this great game, it now comes down to an ancient animus: the Turkish Sunni Muslims versus the Persian Shiite Muslims for control over this region.

By bnm Gulf bureau Iraq faces a potential energy crisis as US President Donald Trump ends its exemption from sanctions on ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces ...