Powerful explosions have struck southern Beirut as Israel carries out fresh strikes on a suburb with a strong Hezbollah presence The Israeli military says it hit weapons storage facilities belonging ...

At least five people have been killed in an Israeli strike on a medical facility in Beirut, according to Lebanese officials. The Health Authority Centre was affiliated with Hezbollah The announcement ...

Hezbollah's first wave of attacks, which occurred on Sunday morning, is likely to be followed by a second wave committed by a different group in the Middle East, Western and Middle Eastern security ...

The United States will withdraw its combat troops from Iraq, reported a BBC World Service correspondent on Thursday. Nafiseh Kohnavard, the BBC correspondent, reported that Brett McGurk, the National ...

Three years ago, a lightning advance by about 800 jihadist fighters in northern Iraq morphed into a global threat. Nafiseh Kohnavard of BBC Persian has followed the fight against so-called Islamic ...

Israeli forces conducted airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday, November 24, according to the IDF. This footage was captured by journalist Nafiseh Kohnavard, who said that there were “back ...

The Americans plan to pull out of Syria but are continuing the fight against so-called Islamic State from a newly-built base just inside the Iraqi border. Nafiseh Kohnavard of BBC Persian gained rare ...

BBC Persian's Nafiseh Kohnavard travels through Iraq's Shia heartland to see what has changed since the US assassination of Iran's senior commander, Qassem Soleimani.