After 2,898 days of captivity in Iran, Siamak Namazi was desperate to feel the warm sun on his face, lay back in the grass, and look up at the blue sky. “For almost eight years I have been ...
Prisoners at a facility in southwest Iran started a fire to protest against a death sentence issued against a fellow inmate, and shots have been heard, an Iranian news agency reported on Friday.
"Iran and the Taliban are working well together to combat terrorism," says Iran's intelligence minister, Esmail Khatib. In a video released on September 15 by the Iranian news agency Tasnim, which ...
The Islamic Republic of Iran has generated a massive windfall of up to $15.7 billion for illegally seizing American hostages as part of a ruthless hostage policy that has been fine-tuned since its ...
Five Americans imprisoned in Iran are back on U.S. soil after they were released as part of a prisoner exchange the Biden administration negotiated with Tehran. A plane carrying the five prisoners ...
Ellen Ioanes covers breaking and general assignment news as the weekend reporter at Vox. She previously worked at Business Insider covering the military and global conflicts. A decades-long ...
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has defended his country’s enrichment of uranium to near weapons-grade levels, claiming it was a response to European states not living up to their end of the ...
Five U.S. citizens detained by Iran were freed Monday in a high-stakes, complex diplomatic deal brokered between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Biden administration that included the ...
Five Americans who have been held in Iran for years are on their way to the United States in return for Iranians released from U.S. custody and Tehran's access to $6 billion in frozen oil revenues ...
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Five Americans detained for years in Iran walked off a plane and into freedom Monday, some arm-in-arm, as part of a politically risky deal that saw President Joe Biden agree ...
NEW YORK — The United States and Iran freed 10 people on Monday in a high-stakes prisoner swap that signaled a partial thaw in the icy relations between the longtime adversaries. Five American ...
The release of the five Americans detained by Iran "was amazing, very emotional," Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens told CNN, adding, "I probably haven't cried this ...
