ACCORDING TO ONE legend, the Kurds are descended from 400 virgins who were raped by devils on the way to King Solomon's court. Fatah Kavian, a member of the central committee of the anti-Khomeini ...

Findings suggest the presence of cultural remains from homo heidelbergensis or even older species before neanderthals.

Tensions have escalated between Iraq’s central government in Baghdad and the semiautonomous Kurdish region in the country’s ...

Iranian negotiators participating in the talks in Rome say that those talks were held in what they call *** professional atmosphere. Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Arakshi coming out afterwards and ...

The head of the United Nations’ atomic watchdog said Wednesday that “the jury is still out” on negotiations between Iran and the U.S. over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program ...

According to the reports, Pedram Madani was hanged after Iran's supreme court upheld a death sentence issued by a lower court. The official IRNA news agency said Madani had visited Israel and met ...

US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he had told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold off from striking Iran as he voiced optimism about nuclear talks his administration is holding ...

WASHINGTON — As the Trump administration tries to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been threatening to upend the talks by striking Iran’s main ...

Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria have reached an agreement with the transitional government in Damascus to evacuate Syrian citizens from a sprawling camp in the desert that houses tens of ...

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