Shortly before Sunni Islamist-led rebels swept into the Syrian capital, Iran-backed guards fled their positions at the gates ...

2024 must rank as one of the worst years for the Iranian regime. Israel has humbled and decapitated Hamas and Hezbollah in ...

The end of five decades of rule over Syria by the house of al-Assad represents a decisive turning point in Middle Eastern ...

The sudden collapse of the Islamic Republic's closest state-actor ally stunned the world as Syrian rebels captured Damascus ...

Sunni Muslims account for around 10 percent of Iran's population, where the vast majority are Shias and that branch of Islam is the official state religion. They have very rarely held key ...

The Zaynab shrine in Damascus is revered by Shia muslims around the world. It’s such an important religious site, Shia ...

Assad's rule in Syria marked a significant shift in Middle Eastern politics. Facing a rebel offensive supported by Turkey, ...

Iran had lost faith in now-deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad before his fall from power, according to analysts and ...

The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has left Iran and Russia on the outside, while Iran is accelerating its pursuit of a ...

The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has left Iran and Russia on the outside, while Iran is accelerating its pursuit of a ...

The rebels battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad are largely made up of Sunnis, and some of the groups are backed ...