Generally speaking, starting a war out of the blue is a bad idea. This is the lesson, if such was needed, of the utterly ...

Iraq is set to become a hot zone of proxy fighting between Turkish-backed Islamist militants and Iranian-backed ones.

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 ...

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

The Iran-Iraq War was one of the most devastating conflicts of the late twentieth century. On the ground, despite each side possessing modern weaponry, airplanes, and tanks, the war was..

The United States of America has maintained some degree of military presence ever since March 19, 2003, when the Iraq War, ...

Despite Iraq’s vast reserves of (associated) natural gas, the country has long been dependent on Iranian gas supplies.

Western media fuels fear of Iran, but the true threat lies in the West's flawed foreign policies, not Iran itself ...

Daryush Nourbaha knows he’s fortunate. As an American, he’s had security and opportunities. Now he hopes he can pay some of ...

Several leaders of the Islamic Republic have recently come out in favor of negotiating with the US to have the sanctions on the country lifted.