While there are continued disputes about the compatibility of Islam and democracy, many Muslim-majority democracies exist.

The 12-day confrontation between Iran and Israel in June 2025 may not have escalated into a full-scale regional war, but it ...

Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah. Then the Islamic Revolution swept the country.

Hajjar Shademani's family waited for hours in the heat and dust after crossing the border into Afghanistan, their neat pile ...

Millions of devout Muslims observe the month of Ramzan every year What however is it all aboutThe Quran indicates that eating and drinking are permissible only until the white thread of light becomes ...

Oil edged down after its biggest weekly loss in two years as traders speculated on the volume of an expected OPEC+ supply ...

The order by President Masoud Pezeshkian included no timetables or details about what that suspension would entail.

To understand Islam, we need to understand its major divisions, Sunni and Shiite. One way to start is to grasp the dueling significances of a major Islamic holiday, Ashura, coming up next Saturday ...

Dozens of Alawite women and girls disappear this year Some are abducted, families receive ransom demands Assad’s fall led to ...

Twenty-four members of the Jewish community in Tehran and Shiraz remain in prison as of Sunday after being arrested along with hundreds of others in a sweeping government crackdown in ...

Kayhan, one of the most influential newspapers in Iran, ran an editorial in which it said the 12-day war was a warning to ...