Islamic, the theocratic regime in Iran has studiously downplayed it ever since it captured power. Now, however, the ancient ...

Some 50 miles northwest of Baghdad, archaeologists and a large team of local workers have revealed the standing remains of a neglected Sasanian-era (a.d. 224–651) site known as the Zindan, a Persian ...

With the establishment of Christianity as the official religion, it seemed the Roman Empire was going to simplify the ...

The spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has highlighted the unique cultural and civilizational capacities of ...

Unable to change the outcome of battle, the Islamic Republic moved quickly after the June 24 ceasefire to reassert its authority at home.

The isthmus of the South Caucasus has repeatedly sat at the edge of great global powers, serving variably (and perhaps not ...

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The firings, part of a nationwide effort, felt “like a Monday afternoon massacre,” said one judge who lost her job last month. By Ana Ley Starbucks agreed to the settlement after failing to give ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the contentious appeal weeks after President Trump had made the same request to the Israeli president. By Isabel Kershner The president called the nationwide ...

The playwright offered a kind of on-ramp to the literary canon, a way into a life of unabashed, unstoppable thinking. The Department of Health and Human Services maintains that it is hewing to “gold ...

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