A US-Israeli airstrike hit a Shia mosque in the northwestern city of Zanjan early on Tuesday, according to Iranian state media. The attack caused widespread destruction to the prayer hall, known as ...

As a fragile ceasefire begins, Tehran is using lessons from the Iran-Iraq War to prepare for an American escalation.

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Protests erupt in Herat during funeral of shooting victims, as anger grows over attacks on civilians and rising insecurity in Afghanistan.

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More than 2,000 Lebanese people have been killed — hundreds in a single day last week — thousands more have been injured, and ...

Israeli military leaders repeatedly vow to invade all of south Lebanon and expel hundreds of thousands of Shiite residents ...

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Iraq’s top leadership is divided along sectarian lines, with the president being Kurdish and the prime minister usually a Shi’ite. The lower-level speaker of parliament's role goes to Sunnis. How Iran ...