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Over the first five days of Israel’s campaign, Iran experienced major losses — in leadership, military assets and nuclear ...

A Reuters investigation found 40 distinct sites of killings, looting and arson during three days of sectarian massacres ...

The Alwaites, who primarily live in Syria's coastal regions, particularly in the provinces of Latakia and Tartus, are ...

The problem, for both Iran and the Palestinian cause, is that the rest of the Middle East had already come to the same conclusion. During the two decades Iran was extending its military reach in the ...

Iran's nuclear obsession can be explained through three key facts: deterrence failure, religious incentives for apocalyptic ...

As home to Islam’s dominant Sunni branch, the kingdoms know Iran not only as radical, but also as the nominal leaders of the minority Shi‘ite branch, and thus a rival.

Thousands of mourners thronged the streets of Iran’s capital, Tehran, on Saturday at a funeral procession for about 60 people ...

Ali Khamenei was a midlevel cleric who clawed his way up the political hierarchy.

In Latakia, a Syrian coastal city that has been the site of killings targeting the Alawite minority, four Sunni and Shiite ...