Attacks by Hezbollah and an Iraqi militia appear to be a calculated step by Tehran to widen the arena of conflict in a bid to raise the costs for its adversaries
[caption id="attachment_55249925" align="alignnone" width="620"] People wait in line to receive humanitarian aid in Yarmouk refugee camp, in southern Damascus, Syria, on February 2, 2014. (Rami al…
[caption id="attachment_55249911" align="alignnone" width="620"] Head of Ankara University-Vocational School of Health Services Dr. Serap Alsancak helps a Syrian as he tries his prosthetic leg in…
[caption id="attachment_55249917" align="alignnone" width="620"] Qatar's Deputy Prime Minister, Ahmed Bin Abdullah Al-Mahmud (C), chairs a meeting of an international commission monitoring a limited…
[caption id="attachment_55249902" align="alignnone" width="594"] Jordanian activists and Muslim Brotherhood leaders protest near the Israeli embassy after the death of a Jordanian lawyer who was…
[caption id="attachment_55249876" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Iraqi man walks past an election poster fronted by Iraqi prime minister Nuri Al-Maliki (C) on March 25, 2014, in Baghdad. (Ahmad Al…
[caption id="attachment_55249872" align="alignnone" width="620"] Yemen researcher at Human Rights Watch Belkis Wille presents a report entitled "'A Life-Threatening Career': Attacks on Journalists…
[caption id="attachment_55249853" align="alignnone" width="620"] Opposition fighters help one of their wounded comrades during clashes with government forces in the Sheikh Najjar district on the…
[caption id="attachment_55249844" align="alignnone" width="620"] People hold black and white portraits of Armenian intellectuals who were deported on April 24, 1915, during a commemorative march in…
[caption id="attachment_55249839" align="alignnone" width="620"] Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrive to give a press statement on…
[caption id="attachment_55249817" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Egyptian soldier stands guard on a watchtower near the border between Egypt and Gaza on September 12, 2013. (Said Khatib/AFP/Getty…
The US and Israel carried out strikes across Iran, and Tehran has retaliated by striking US/Israeli assets across the region. Could this turn into the regional war analysts have been warning about?
A clerical member of the Guardian Council, he was selected to serve on the Leadership Council along with President Masoud Pezeshkian and Chief Justice Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei