A meeting in Berlin on Sunday will seek an exit to one of the Middle East’s most intractable proxy wars.

Remarkably, some criticism is coming from some within the government’s hard-line power base.

A debate of how much blame the government bears for the downing of a Ukrainian jetliner threatens to destroy a moment of national solidarity.

Drones, militants and hackers: Iran has an array of stealthier and more effective options if hostilities escalate.

In a departure from Iran’s usual tactics of hiding behind proxies, the country’s supreme leader wants any retaliation for the killing of a top military commander to be carried out openly by Iranian forces.

The American assassination of a top Iranian commander may make it impossible for American forces to stay in Iraq. That could ease an ISIS comeback.

The fateful decision in 1979 to admit Mohammed Reza Pahlavi prompted the seizure of the American Embassy in Tehran and helped doom the Carter presidency.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey might send troops to Libya to counter Russian-backed militia forces.

In charges unsealed this week, the Justice Department laid out new elements of an effort by an American ally to buy access in Washington.

The arrest was the latest step in a crackdown on press freedom over the past six years.