TEHRAN, IRAN – For those who were there, the memories are still fresh, 40 years after one of the defining events of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, when protesters seized the U.S. Embassy... Read more »

VOA – BAGHDAD – The day after anti-government protests erupted in Iraq, Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani flew into Baghdad late at night and took a helicopter to the heavily fortified Green Zone,... Read more »

ًVOA – WASHINGTON – The federal deficit for the 2019 budget year surged to $984.4 billion, its highest point in seven years, and is widely expected to top the $1 trillion mark... Read more »

VOA – UNITED NATIONS – Iran executed seven child offenders last year and two so far this year even though human rights law prohibits the death penalty for anyone under age 18,... Read more »

VOA – PRINCE SULTAN AIR BASE, SAUDI ARABIA – PRINCE SULTAN AIR BASE, Saudi Arabia (AP) _ Defense Secretary Mark Esper says he will urge allies later this week to contribute more... Read more »

VOA – WASHINGTON – Long after more flamboyant colleagues flamed out of President Donald Trump’s favor amid ethics scandals, low-profile and folksy Rick Perry survived in the Cabinet in part by steering... Read more »

VOA – CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. – The world’s first female spacewalking team made history high above Earth on Friday, floating out of the International Space Station to fix a broken part of... Read more »

VOA – CLEVELAND – Efforts to settle thousands of lawsuits related to the nation’s opioid epidemic intensified Wednesday ahead of the scheduled start of arguments in the first federal trial over the... Read more »

VOA – TEHRAN, IRAN – Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard says it has arrested an exiled journalist who helped fan the flames of nationwide economic protests that struck the country at the end... Read more »