In early 1979, the US-backed Pahlavi regime was overthrown in Iran, bringing Ayatollah Khomeini to power. In November '79, Americans in the US embassy in Tehran were taken hostage; a month later, ...

In these majoritarian times, some conservative pundits, embarrassed by the feral Right and keen to seem ideologically respectable, have found an all-purpose rhetorical manoeuvre which goes like this. ...

A fresh wildfire ignited near the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library outside Los Angeles on Wednesday as extraordinarily dry, prolonged Santa Ana winds whipped through the region, forcing meteorologis...

The Pentagon said on Monday it tested a conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile with a range of more than 500km , the first such test since the US pulled out of the Intermediate-range...

When former US President George H.W. Bush died at the age of 94 in Houston on Friday, many here recalled how he presided over the end of the Cold War and beat back Saddam Hussein’s invading army fro...