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) ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

The U.S. and Iran have a long history of tensions, including a CIA-led campaign to topple Iran's prime minister in 1953 and the taking of American hostages in 1979.

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

HOUSTON — Forty-five years ago, U.S. hostages held in Iran were finally freed after 444 days in captivity. One of those hostages was William Royer, a Houston man, now 94 years old. He's reflecting on ...

The American Embassy in Tehran, Iran. On that day, in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution that had overthrown the Shah, followers from the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam’s Line descended on ...

On April 30, 1980, a group of six armed men stormed the Iranian embassy in South Kensington, marking the start of a six-day standoff.