The stalemate in Iran continues to dominate headlines. In Delhi, we are geographically removed from the war’s direct reach, yet its repercussions are strongly felt. So too are the enduring traces of ...

Videos show birds, turtles and crabs trapped inside mounds of tar around Shidvar island, a protected wildlife sanctuary with turquoise waters and white sand beaches. By Sanam Mahoozi Erika Solomon and ...

Bahar Behbahani’s Damask Rose: A Gathering on Governors Island (all photos Diba Mohtasham/Hyperallergic, unless otherwise noted) On the unseasonably warm afternoon of Saturday, May 16, three shallow ...

Her popular graphic novel series, published in the early 2000s, followed an Iranian girl through the Islamic Revolution and ...

The Middle East—and the Persian Gulf at its heart—have been battered by the Iran war since late February. Mines have been deployed across the Strait of Hormuz, the entrance to the Gulf, countless ...

Pakistan has imported its second shipment of liquefied natural gas from the Persian Gulf in a week, showing how Islamabad is leveraging its newfound geopolitical influence to ease an energy crunch.

A movie scene of a young Donald Trump lookalike doing his signature YMCA dance to Iranian pop music has been circulating in the war-torn country. It’s built around a long-running — but debunked — ...

Kuwait says detained men confessed links to Revolutionary Guards mission According to Kuwaiti authorities, the men attempted to infiltrate Bubiyan Island aboard a fishing boat on May 1 and were ...

A supertanker hauling Iraqi crude to China has left the Persian Gulf and crossed the US blockade line into the Arabian Sea, as talks continue to end the war between the US and Iran and reopen the ...

There are fewer than 1,100 Persian leopards left in the wild, with 80% — perhaps 732 individuals — concentrated in Iran. A handful remain in Russia, the Caucasus and countries across Central Asia.

Ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz now face tolls and strict Iranian oversight as Tehran launches the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, with JPMorgan forecasting 11‑figure annual revenue from tolls.

Tehran claims holding sway over a wide area from its own shores to UAE ports of Fujairah and Umm Al Quwain Iran and the US took further steps on Wednesday to assert their contradicting claims of ...