Lebanon's political system is deeply entrenched in sectarian divisions. The country is a confessional democracy, meaning that ...

The fact that legitimacy, perceived or real, matters in Iran’s political system, makes its leaders to some degree responsive to pressures from below. In this case, streets protests, and electoral ...

The New York Fed’s process to move Baghdad’s oil earnings lacked key money-laundering safeguards, resulting in illicit ...

Iran will be hit with new sanctions Tuesday for supplying ballistic missiles to Russia, Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...

Cybersecurity researchers found new Iranian hacker networks targeting U.S. political campaigns. Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson ...

Biden’s Iran critics urge stronger sanctions enforcement and even tougher rhetoric as Putin relies on Tehran to provide ...

Iran has cultivated ties with criminal networks in the West to carry out a recent wave of violent plots in the United States ...

The following is the Sept. 8, 2024, Congressional Research Service report, Iran: Background and U.S. Policy. From the report ...

The Islamic Republic efforts to take credit for campus protests may be felt mostly inside Iran, writes Farhad Souzanchi.

Iran will be hit with new sanctions Tuesday for supplying ballistic missiles to Russia, Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...

A Lebanese official said pagers belonging to Hezbollah militants had exploded, causing a large number of injuries. The ...

Israeli jets triggered huge sonic booms during a speech by Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday. Nasrallah, ...