Tensions eased after 1990, as the US focused on Iraq after Baghdad's invasion of Kuwait and as Iran in 1997 elected reformist President Mohammed Khatami, who sought better relations with the West.

It's been a week since the United States pressed Israel and Iran into a truce, ending a bloody, 12-day conflict that had set ...

When the Israel-Iran war broke out and the United States decided to assist the Israeli side by striking Iran's nuclear ...

Iran blames Israel for a strike on its Syria consulate, and has vowed to retaliate. Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution transformed previously cordial relations between Iran and Israel to fierce hostility.

Israel and Iran have been enemies for decades — but this is their most sustained direct fighting ever. Here’s how a shadow ...

As an unprecedented Israeli attack on Iran last week sparks a spiraling conflict between the two enemy states, China has seen ...

Iran remains the US’s adversary in the Middle East since the 1979 Islamic revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

This change of tone, however fleeting, came after the intense U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear-development sites this week, Iran's retaliatory yet restrained attack on a U.S. military base in Qatar and ...

‘As bad as its ever been’: Relations between the US, Iran and Israel worry insiders ‘Something changed in terms of the nature of the rules of the game in the Middle East in a fairly negative ...

The Iran nuclear issue has been a sore point between the United States and Israel for nearly a decade, despite the very deep and enduring security partnership between the countries and their shared ...

For much of the 20th century, the US and Iran maintained friendly relations. During the Cold War, Washington depended on the Shah of Iran to counter Soviet influence in the oil-rich Middle East.