The Trump administration’s decision to bomb Iran dramatically marks the now nearly half-century of hostility between the ...

CIA Director John Ratcliffe has told skeptical U.S. lawmakers that American military strikes destroyed Iran’s lone metal ...

Despite their "Top Gun" fame, the United States decommissioned the last of its F-14 Tomcats in 2006. But Iran had them, and ...

Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, has died at 91.

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 ...

But this narrative of democratic decline leaves out a pivotal episode: the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s. This opaque foreign policy mess has receded from history, a minor speedbump at the ...

Patrons at a pub watching TV to see Lt. Col. Oliver L. North's testimony before the joint Congressional hearing into Iran-Contra affair. Credit - Steve Liss—Getty Images President Donald Trump ...

The Iran-Contra scandal highlights how little respect Reagan Administration officials harbored for the guardrails of democracy yet suffered few penalties for their misdeeds.

Americans have a muddled memory of Iran-Contra, in part because of its complexity. The scandal had two separate branches, each stemming from an attempt to achieve one of President Ronald Reagan ...