L. Bruce Laingen, the highest-ranking American official held in Iran during the 444-day-long hostage ordeal that began there in November 1979, died Monday in Bethesda, Maryland. He was 96. Laingen, a ...

Women sit on a low wall beneath a large banner outside the former U.S. embassy compound as crowds gather to mark the anniversary in Tehran, Iran, on Nov. 4, 2025. The compound, seized during the 1979 ...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a tweet Sunday marked the 40th anniversary of the end of the Iran hostage crisis. However, critics were quick to quick to point out a problem—he had managed to get ...

HOUSTON — Forty-five years ago, U.S. hostages held in Iran were finally freed after 444 days in captivity. One of those hostages was William Royer, a Houston man, now 94 years old. He's reflecting on ...

Jimmy Carter says he handled the Iranian hostage crisis 30 years ago the right way, and that if he had attacked Tehran, thousands would have died.

The protests in Iran are grabbing headlines, with the government and the opposition accusing each other of escalating violence. The government also says that foreign interference is behind the ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — In a matter of days, nationwide protests challenging Iran’s theocracy exploded into a crackdown and bloodshed that blew past reported casualty figures of decades of ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran’s first president after the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution who fled Tehran after being impeached for challenging the growing power of clerics as the ...

Jan. 5 marks the anniversary of an engineering feat: the beginning of construction on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. This year, the Franklin High School Band was featured in that broadcast ...