Valley of Love, a piece of paradise in Zagros

(CNN) -- "You! You have moto, yes?" An elderly woman, her craggy face peering out from the folds of her voluminous black chador, demands my attention. I'm in the immigration line at the Turkey-Iran border and my heart is pounding as I wait to be ...

loading... by Micah Zenko July 11, 2014 SEC. HAGEL: A lot of questions always come with any possibility or decision whether to take strikes or not. So those are all questions that are being asked and factors are being—are put into the process.

My father originally came to the United Kingdom, and later, the United States, as a refugee of Saddam Hussein's campaign against the Kurds. Several days ago, he took us to the house of one of the only other Kurdish families in the state. The dinner ...

With ISIS overrunning key parts of Iraq including attacks on the 310,000 barrel per day Baiji oil refinery which happens to be Iraq's largest, we've already seen the impact of the conflict on the world's oil prices. How much oil does Iraq have ...

A fisherman drags his nets at the dried-up Zayanderood River, with the Khajoo Bridge in the background, in Isfahan, 450 km (281 miles) south of Tehran, June 27, 2008. (photo by REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl) Author:Barbara Slavin Posted June 23, 2014 ...

ISIS's stated aim is the revival of a caliphate - a Sunni super state that would collapse the colonial-era boundaries between Syria and upper and western Iraq. But even if they are defeated, the tribal and sectarian forces that bedevil the Middle ...

Fall of Mosul to militants far more loathsome than Al Qaeda has tore down the fantasy the US President Barack Obama has been selling the world for past many years. Neither has he been able to defeat Al Qaeda nor eliminate militancy. The scenario ...

Ecological & economic destruction provokes mass protests by Dan Brett London - 17 June 2014 The Garden of Eden is dying. Reputed to be two of Eden's four rivers, the Karoun and Karkheh have been reduced to a trickle as an environmental disaster ...

12:28 pm A stunning photo taken by an astronaut aboard the provides the geographic context to an ironic turn of events Iran, the Persian Gulf, the , and the , as seen from the on 6/13/14. (Source: Reid Wiseman/NASA) It's now almost a cliché: ...