The governments of both countries have repeatedly cast the other as evil, perpetuating a cycle that has culminated in the present war.

The late Iranian Supreme Leader suppressed a determined grassroots struggle for self-determination—often with crushing ...

In the war the US launched on the Islamic Republic, the US secretary of war, as he prefers to be called, likes to talk about how the Christian God is on his side.

Follow live NBC News coverage and latest updates on the Iran war, as Tehran attacks ships around the Strait of Hormuz, the ...

A man armed with a rifle rammed a vehicle into a major synagogue in a Detroit suburb and was fatally shot by security. Jennifer Runyan, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Detroit field office, ...

Statistically, attending a weekly worship service is a remarkably safe thing to do. Global annual attendance totals many billions; the number of people killed in attacks on individual houses of ...

The war in Iran has ground tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz to a halt and oil prices have been swinging sharply, ...

Oil prices surged and markets slid Monday after hard-line Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei was chosen to succeed his late father as Iran’s supreme leader, signaling that Iran was digging in 10 days into the ...

Iran has named a new supreme leader following the death of longtime ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, marking a major shift ...

In a humble apartment in South Portland, 66-year-old Karim Haddadi and his family gathered around a TV to watch a Kurdish ...

Kurdish Iranian dissident groups based in northern Iraq are preparing for a potential cross-border military operation in Iran, and the U.S. has asked Iraqi Kurds to support them, Kurdish officials ...

As bombs rain down, Babak Rahimi, a scholar of the Middle East, challenges the US press to convey the “messy” reality on the ...