Authoritarian regimes often enforce strict clothing laws to assert their dominance over their citizens' physical and ...

The IOC presidential election on Thursday takes place in a political climate that seems a world away from the last contested ...

On his Truth Social platform Friday night, President Trump wrote that "the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed." ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has said that the head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was ...

Saudi Arabia is 2,000 miles from Ukraine and even more politically distant, so at first glance it might seem like it has nothing to do with the ongoing war there. But the Gulf state has emerged as a ...

For Iran's clerical leaders, engaging with the "Great Satan" to hammer out a nuclear deal and ease crippling sanctions may for once be the lesser of two evils.

This week's Farda Briefing looks at why Iran continues to reject direct talks with the Donald Trump administration while ...

Hamid Rahmanian has made it his life’s work to share the richness of Iranian culture. “Song of the North,” at the New Victory Theater, is just the latest installment.

There is always a risk of totalitarianism,” warned the filmmaker, who fled to Germany last year and is currently heading up ...

A letter U.S. President Donald Trump wrote to Iran’s supreme leader in an attempt to jump-start talks over Tehran’s rapidly ...

In 41 BC, Cleopatra hosted a dinner to celebrate the Roman leader Mark Antony, who was a well-known party animal. Twelve ...

Insurgents who attacked a passenger train carrying 440 passengers in restive southwestern Pakistan killed 21 hostages before ...