Iran's state TV says authorities have ordered the closure of all governmental offices, universities and schools in the ...

Marjan Kamali joins Sara from Boston USA to talk about her brilliant new novel, 'The Lion Women Of Tehran'.

Sara welcomes bestselling author Marjan Kamali to the Radio 2 Book Club!

The Islamic Republic is on the ropes, but it could still exploit the threat of rapid nuclear breakout.

Iran and its proxy network have been revealed to be paper tigers. More defeats will surely follow this one.

The Assad regime survived on violence and complicity. But to be sustainable in any authoritarian context, that violence ...

In his first address since the toppling of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei excoriated the United ...

President-elect Donald Trump is now considering tapping Richard Grenell, his former intelligence chief, to be a special envoy ...

Britain, France and Germany have told the United Nations Security Council that they are ready - if necessary - to trigger a ...

With the shock overthrow of the Assad dynastic dictatorship that ruled Syria since 1971, new diplomatic opportunities are ...

The last few days have brought changes in the Middle East more significant than most and perhaps the greatest opportunity for ...

Syria’s new de facto authorities are led by a Sunni Islamist group with extremist origins, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), and ...