H E WAS KILLED by an Israeli air strike in Lebanon last year. Yet the face of Hassan Nasrallah, formerly the boss of ...

The regional balance of power is shifting rapidly, with major players, including Arab states, Pakistan, and Turkey, now ...

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is chipping away at Iran’s regional influence. He is urging Syria and Lebanon to join the ...

Iran, Shia militias involvement in ISIS fight a mixed blessing for U.S., Iraq By Ashley Fantz , Ben Wedeman and Greg Botelho , CNN 7 minute read ...

Iran’s top Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, has issued a fatwa—a religious decree—against US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, labelling them as ...

When dealing with a malignancy, radical surgery is oftentimes required. In the realm of international relations that is the case with the Islamic Republic of Iran, a cancer that the entire world has ...

Yet Iran’s influence over the Iraqi Shia community and Iraq more generally is, in reality, not as strong as it may first seem and can be rolled back. In fact, Iran’s past with Iraq’s Shia community is ...

In a meeting with Iraqi Minister of Interior Abdul Amir Al-Shammari in Tehran on Tuesday, President Pezeshkian said that Iran ...

When they claim to be targeting Iran, they are in practice targeting the Shia community as a whole – a mistake for which both they and the Shia are likely to pay a high price.

But the Shia believe the supreme leader of Iran has divine powers and they believe that, if the Hidden Imam appeared, he would speak for God.” ...

Iran, Shia militias involvement in ISIS fight a mixed blessing for U.S., Iraq By Ashley Fantz , Ben Wedeman and Greg Botelho , CNN 7 minute read ...

Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi has declared U.S. President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu as "enemies of ...