The costs of the joint U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran are mounting in terms of civilian deaths and damage to some of Iran's ...

Decades of Western diplomacy misjudged Iran’s ideology, fueling a war that the West was unprepared for.

"The architecture of the Islamic world is predominantly considered in terms of a dual division between "tradition" and "modernity" - a division which, Saeid Khaghani here argues, has shaped and ...

Vali Nasr discusses Trump’s strategic deadlock on Iran and its implications for Gulf security and global markets.

Twelver Shiism is the largest branch within Shiism – one of the two major sects within Islam. Shiism is the second-largest tradition within Islam overall, following the Sunni tradition. Iran is the ...

These attacks, which were ostensibly supposed to target Iran’s nuclear and missile capabilities, have also caused massive civilian casualties and damage to cultural sites. Air strikes near historic ...

United States-Israeli strikes on Iran have caused significant damage to multiple UNESCO World Heritage Sites. These locations ...