In this BBC Persian film for the BBC World Service, former child soldiers share their untold stories and deeply personal ...

It was clear what was happening: the tensions with Iraq had finally snapped, and Saddam Hussein was now launching a ...

Mohsen M Milani’s book charts the Islamic Republic’s rise to ‘peak power’ and the fall-out from Hamas’s assault on Israel ...

Daryush Nourbaha knows he’s fortunate. As an American, he’s had security and opportunities. Now he hopes he can pay some of ...

A showdown is building between Communist China and the West. From rising tensions over Taiwan, trade, TikTok, fentanyl, ...

Yuval Vagdani woke up on Jan. 4 to a flurry of missed calls from family members and Israel's Foreign Ministry with an urgent ...

Iran has purchased Russian Sukhoi-35 fighter jets, a senior official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Monday, in a potential boost for Iran's ailing air force amid increasing tensions ...

But the move captured a quiet shift in Tehran’s thinking, in what is shaping up to be its most consequential year since the 1980s Iran-Iraq war: with the country at its most vulnerable point in ...

Falih al Fayyadh, the chairman of Iraq’s largely pro-Iranian Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), visited Tehran and met with ...

The monument was built by Italian architect Marcello D'Olivo and honours those killed in the Iran-Iraq War that raged between 1980 and 1982. Both of the women are wearing jeans, with one wearing ...

The Iran-Iraq War was one of the most devastating conflicts of the late twentieth century. On the ground, despite each side possessing modern weaponry, airplanes, and tanks, the war was..