Why do the local elections in London matter? At the moment, Labour are dominant in London - they have 21 of its 32 councils, ...

SAMUEL HELFONT is an Associate Professor in the Naval War College Program at the Naval Postgraduate School and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of Iraq Against the World: ...

The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has triggered one of the Middle East’s long-feared nightmares: a full-blown regional conflagration. The expansion of the conflict has had especially significant ...

Trump says "something revolutionarily wonderful can happen" before his deadline of 20:00 on Tuesday (EDT) for Iran to reopen ...

Earlier this month, high in the snow-capped mountains near the border between Iran and Iraq, a Kurdish rebel led me down a foot trail to the opening of a cave. We stepped inside and walked about 50 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ZAGROS MOUNTAINS, Iraq — About 5 kilometers from Iran, aircraft roar overhead. Are the planes American, Israeli, Iranian? The ...

AKRE, Kurdistan Region of Iraq — For many people, the vernal equinox — which marked the beginning of spring Friday — is just another date on the calendar. But in Iran, it's celebrated as the Persian ...

For many people, the vernal equinox — which marked the beginning of spring Friday — is just another date on the calendar. But in Iran, it’s celebrated as the Persian new year, known as Nowruz. In the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Exiled Iranian Kurds in Iraq vow to return only if Iran’s theocracy falls, but decades of displacement have bred ...

Iranian Kurdish fighters train in the mountains of neighboring Iraq, waiting to go into battle against Iran. It’s a perilous existence. Iran bombards the area daily with missiles and drones. Some ...

The United States and Israel planned for Kurdish militia forces to invade Iran early in the ongoing war, hoping to spur a rebellion that would bring down the Islamic Republic – but leaks to the media, ...