White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday invoked the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. Here's how the US tried - and ...

The current Middle East conflict has deep roots in history, the author says, including a 1953 US-backed coup that overthrew ...

President Trump started a war with no clear end in sight. If his predecessors' experiences are an indication, conflicts don't ...

Barry Rosen and John Limbert were among 52 people held at the US embassy in Tehran from November 1979 to January 1981 ...

After months of humiliation during the Iran hostage crisis, the U.S. attempted a bold rescue mission deep inside hostile territory. Elite Delta Force operators prepared to storm the American embassy ...

Long before the open warfare of recent months, the US and Iran have been locked into decades of low-level conflict. Since the ...

The United States and Iran have been adversaries since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the hostage crisis at the US embassy ...

Between 1953 and 1977, the U.S. and Iran had a mostly cordial relationship. During the 1960s, the U.S. assisted Iran in creating its nuclear program, providing a nuclear reactor and significant ...

Before the U.S. and Israel opened a war on Iran, the Islamic republic had waged a nearly 50-year campaign of global terrorism ...

Antagonism is rooted in overlapping historical experiences that continue to shape how each country views the other, writes ...

On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 66 Americans hostage. What was expected to ...