Iliya Jazaeri is a correspondent with RFE/RL's Radio Farda who specializes in the Middle East.
A long-awaited cease-fire in the Gaza Strip came into effect on January 19, followed by the release of three Israeli hostages after an hourslong delay, underscoring the fragility of the deal between Israel and U.S.-designated terrorist group Hamas.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has designated Nawaf Salam, the head of the International Court of Justice, as the country’s new prime minister in another blow to Iran’s declining regional influence.
Residents of the Gaza Strip told RFE/RL’s Radio Farda about their struggle for survival one year into Israel’s war in the Hamas-run Palestinian enclave.
Ismail Haniyeh rose through the ranks to become the political leader of the Palestinian extremist group Hamas -- an EU- and U.S.-designated terrorist group -- and himself was branded a terrorist by Washington. A look at Haniyeh's life and career.
Tehran is putting increased pressure on Baghdad to push alleged anti-Iranian "terrorists" out of Iraq's Kurdistan region, demanding that nearly 120 Iranian Kurds be extradited to Iran for trial. But members of the Iranian-Kurdish opposition parties say the real target is Kurdish independence.
Iran's southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan is the most impoverished province in the country. Malnutrition is rife in the village of Mirabad, where people survive on subsistence farming and many children can't attend school because they don't have a birth certificate.
Iran shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet last year, killing all aboard amid tensions with the United States over the assassination of a top Iranian general. Relatives of the victims are struggling with the pain of the tragedy and what they see as a lack of accountability and justice.
