Iranian state media has confirmed that Israel killed the top Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander in major airstrikes targeting ...

EMERGING from a carpet shop in Iran’s beautiful and ancient city of Esfahan, I was engulfed by a group of jostling young men.

Loosely defined hate-speech laws and the rise of social media have led to zealous policing, resulting in fines and prison ...

President Donald Trump visited a new immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades on Tuesday as state officials showcased what critics are condemning as an inhumane makeshift prison camp and ...

Shiite Islam offers Iranians a standard it views as just. Iran calls itself an Islamic republic. Many Iranians may appreciate ...

Since the church bombing, some Christians have been afraid to meet for church. A group of Kurdish Christians who are ...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee warns that Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi faces threats to her life from Iranian ...

It is not merely the absence of chains. It is freedom from tyranny in all its forms — physical, spiritual and moral. True ...

Turkish police have detained four employees of the satirical magazine LeMan over a controversial cartoon which authorities ...

IndieWire looks at recent films from Jafar Panahi, Nader Saei-Var, and more to consider how hijab is represented in Iranian ...

The Israeli military said Monday that it can now fly over the country's capital, Tehran, without facing major resistance after crippling Iran’s air defenses in recent strikes, enabling Israel to hit ...

U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran brought talk of "regime change." But ordinary Iranians fear getting caught in the crossfire.