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

Iranians burn an American flag outside the former United States Embassy in Tehran in 2011. (Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images) ...

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

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 ...

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

The governments of both countries have repeatedly cast the other as evil, perpetuating a cycle that has culminated in the present war.

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

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

Dozens of direct or indirect attacks on Americans both militarily and civilian-wise have been carried out or aided by Iran's ...

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

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 ...

President Trump is preparing to announce an international coalition to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz ...