JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has requested a pardon from the president during his trial on corruption charges that has long divided the country. The request was met with ...

If you’re looking for a temperature check on the state of the planet’s ecological decline, this is it. For decades, Tehran has faced an oncoming water shortage, brought on by environmental changes, ...

Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker as it traveled through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Friday, a U.S. official and a private maritime risk group said, ...

An elite Iranian military unit plotted to assassinate the Israeli ambassador to Mexico, according to a US official familiar with the matter. The plan, hatched by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ ...

On a busy sidewalk outside a café, a group of young people, many of them women, bob their heads to the beat of “Seven Nation Army,” by the White Stripes. Huddled around a live band, some shake their ...

Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan is tested by a new exchange of fire and Hamas's effort to consolidate power instead of putting down its arms, while the President ...

Check out the Shadow's Eve 2025 Trailer for Trove, a free-to-play voxel-based multiplayer game developed by Gamigo US. Players will explore this haunting event full of souls in need of their missing ...

Welcome back to The Farda Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that tracks the key issues in Iran and explains why they matter. I'm RFE/RL correspondent Kian Sharifi. In this edition, I’m looking into the ...

The Iranian authorities said Monday they had hanged a man they accused of spying for Israel, the latest in what is believed to be the largest wave of executions by Tehran in decades, according to ...

UN sanctions on Iran set to be reimposed on Saturday Araqchi says US betrayed diplomacy, E3 buried it France, Britain, US say they will continue diplomacy Sanctions to restore arms embargo, ban on ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the United Nations General Assembly in a defiant address Friday that his nation must “finish the job” in its war against Hamas terrorists and secure the ...

As Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian delivered his first address to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, accusing the United States and Israel of "savage aggression," thousands of ...