Ronald Reagan's efforts to eradicate Communism spanned the globe, but the insurgent Contras' cause in Nicaragua was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Iranian woman walks past a mural painted on the wall of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 2009. (Behrouz Mehri/AFP via Getty ...

The U.S. and Iran have a complicated history dating back decades. From the U.S. involvement in the shah's 1953 coup of Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh, to the Iran hostage crisis in 1979, to the U.S ...

President Trump’s “Economic D-Day” is intended to break the stalemate with Iran. But decades of sanctions have done little to change the country’s behavior. By Michael Crowley Reporting from ...

For 47 years, the Islamic Republic has bedeviled U.S. presidents. The 1979 Iran hostage crisis helped doom Jimmy Carter’s reelection bid. The Iran-contra scandal in the mid-1980s badly tarnished ...

Iran’s leaders have perplexed several American presidents, perhaps none more than President Trump. By Michael Crowley Michael Crowley covers the State Department and U.S. foreign policy. He has ...