After decades of managing tensions through careful balancing, Turkey and Iran now find themselves increasingly at odds ...

Analysis: After a string of security incidents and sectarian killings, many have accused Iran of working to destabilise the ...

In an interview on Wednesday with the Jerusalem Post, former senior FBI counterterror official Lara Burns said that the ...

Pakistan - its people and the succession of leaders that have governed the country over the last almost eight years - can take pride in the fact that the country is unique in one important aspect in ...

Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported ...

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The Jewish state can protect its neighborhood, but the Persian Gulf needs a superpower’s attention.

Iran, a Shi'a power, has been waging war in both Iraq and Syria against Sunni Arab forces. In Iraq, the Iranian-backed Shi’a militias have fought against IS, as well as committing atrocities ...

Nearly all Arab states are ruled by Sunnis, and their leaders have long been suspicious of Assad's friendship with non-Arab, Shi'ite Muslim Iran. - The elder Assad had crushed Sunni militants ...

Kadhimi had restored Iraqi ties with Sunni powers such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan, even while keeping excellent relations with Iran and encouraging the restoration of Iranian-Saudi ...

For Muslims in Saudi Arabia and most Sunni-ruled Middle Eastern states Ramadan will begin on Saturday, but in Shiite-majority Iran and Iraq it will start the following day, authorities announced.