With wrestling facing the axe from the Olympics, Iran, Russia, and the US have formed an unlikely alliance to save it. To help the cause, the top wrestlers from all three countries met for exhibition matches in New Yorkk's Grand Central Station in...

After a convict was paraded through the streets of an Iranian city in women's clothes, the Kurdish community responded with a cross-dressing campaign that has forced the country's top cop to order an end to such punishments. "Being a woman is not ...

Two men linked to al-Qaeda "elements" in Iran have been charged with plotting a terror attack on a Canada train in the greater Toronto area, according to law enforcement authorities. A US congressman told CNN that the men were targeting a US-...

A massive 7.8 earthquake has struck a sparsely populated area in southeastern Iran near the border with Pakistan, reportedly killing at least 40 people in Iran and some five in Pakistan, though the toll is expected to climb. The epicenter of the q...

A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale has struck the town of Kaki near the southern Iranian city of Bushehr, killing at least 32 people and leaving more than 850 injured. But Iran's Press TV reports that the Bushehr nuclear facili...

Pack up your troubles in your shipping crate. Artist Marjan K. Vayghan's "Legacy Crates" are a series of transformed crates which symbolize her journey from a deeply troubling Iran to her new home in Los Angeles. "My art's like my therapy that I d...

While US President Barack Obama has forcefully called out Congress for not passing gun control, the United States has been one of the leading countries blocking a global treaty to regulate the $70 billion international arms trade, torpedoing it la...

Fifteen students were killed and a number of others injured, some critically, after mortar shells fell on the college of architecture at Damascus University. At Damascus International Airport, the Free Syrian Army targeted an Iranian cargo militar...

As President Obama prepares for his trip to Israel, the West Bank, and Jordan, Mosaic interviews Columbia University's Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies. While Iran will likely be near the top of the agenda during talks bet...

The sun is glistening on the snow and the skies are blue. It's a perfect day to hit the slopes, but this isn't Aspen, Whistler, or Klosters.... This is the ski resort of Dizin, in the Alborz mountains 60 miles north of the Iranian capital Tehran.