Iran has built parallel military infrastructure across Syria and Iraq over decades, creating a shadow empire that security analysts fear will grow stronger as the U.S. withdraws.

The rest of Iran remains mired in poverty. Public expressions of criticism or calls for economic relief are met with violent IRGC suppression of such heretical talk. It gets worse. Iran has long been ...

For years, Iran’s ayatollahs dreamed of a Shi’ite crescent stretching from Tehran to the Mediterranean, forged in blood and ...

Just six months after the Trump administration said it would begin drawing down U.S. forces in Syria, the U.S. confirmed this week it will also begin reducing the number of U.S. forces in Iraq under ...

One of the most well-known figures of those regions around this time must be Stenka Razin. Terrorising the Caucasus, Don region, and northern Persia, this pirate-turned-rebel leader led one of the ...

Rear Adm. Ali Shamkhani oversaw a brutal crackdown on women, but traditional notions of Islamic morality were little on ...

Political rivals blame each other as Iranians are further squeezed by sanctions that are unlikely to be lifted soon.

A U.S. Senate hearing on October 21 exposed Hezbollah's expanding drug trafficking and money laundering networks across Latin America, triggering alarm over the group's financing operations beyond the ...

The war in Ukraine is a pivotal arena for global power competition, intensifying the Russia-China axis and challenging the US ...

Despite these points, China’s role in supporting Russia is not a black-and-white issue for Europe. In fact, China poses a ...

Russia is increasingly violating neighbors' airspace and menacing NATO throughout Eastern Europe and along the Baltic, but ...