If Mojtaba Khamenei is chosen by Iran’s senior clerics, it may signal a victory for hard-liners, an analyst said.

An estimated 40,000 Iranian protesters were murdered during the Iranian protests for a better life in their country.

Iran does not conduct official ethnic censuses, so all figures come from CIA World Factbook, Britannica and demographic compilations.

The bruising intraparty races could have major implications for Democrats’ hopes of reclaiming the U.S. Senate in November.

Mission Health has lifted all flu-related visitor restrictions across its hospitals and affiliated facilities in western North Carolina.

After a nine-year-old girl was kidnapped and taken from Spain to Bolivia, authorities feared the worst. They found her in the rainforest nine months later – but that wasn’t the end of her ordeal ...

Missile launches, chants like “Madad Ya Imam,” and rituals such as the red flag atop the Jamkaran Mosque encoded messages interpretable only by members of the Shi’a community.

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After Saturday's major attack on Iran by the U.S. and Israel, U.S. President Donald Trump has called on the Iranian public to ...

Four Americans have been killed so far in the war.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former President of Iran (2005-13), who has died aged 69, was an obscure figure when he was ...

In his 1983 essay "Behind the Painted Smile" and subsequent interviews, Alan Moore explains what inspired him to write V for Vendetta, his dystopian graphic novel about an anarchist rebellion against ...