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Iran has marked its annual fire festival. The festival is known as “Chaharshanbe Souri” in Farsi. It comes a week before ...

By Jack Motz In anticipation of Purim last week, students at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons reconstructed Shushan, an ...

During excavation in the ancient Greek city of Notion, located in present-day Türkiye, archaeologists recently made an astonishing discovery. While examining the courtyard of a home dating back ...

TEHRAN, Iran — I’ve worked for The Associated Press as a photographer since 1999. A lot of what I cover involves either Iran’s government or its relations with the West, but I also try to ...

Iran has marked its annual fire festival. Known as “Chaharshanbe Souri” in Farsi, the ancient festival comes on the last Tuesday of the year, ahead of Nowruz, the Persian New Year (March 20). Others ...

An Iranian man holds up a firework celebrating Chaharshanbe Souri, or Wednesday Feast, an ancient Festival of Fire on the eve of the last Wednesday of the Persian year, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday ...