As four helicopters left an undisclosed Israeli airbase in the dead of night on September 8, the 100 elite commandos onboard ...

Sixty-six people are feared to have been killed in a passenger plane crash in the Zagros mountains in Iran. The Aseman Airlines plane, en route from Tehran to the south-western city of Yasuj ...

A severe mountain landslide has occurred along the Firuzabad-Jam axis, particularly affecting the route between Dejgah and the tunnels on the Firuzabad-Shiraz highway. The landslide follows an ...

Three such collision zones form the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau, the European Alps and the Zagros Mountains in Iran, Iraq and Turkey, originating during the Cenozoic (last 66 million years).

The report by Luka Lindic of his latest climbing trip to Iran with Sam Beaugey , Manu Pellissier and Marko Prezelj during which they made the first ascent of Golden spatula (1000m, 6b) up Bisotoon.

Their destination was a mountain in the Masyaf area in western ... It was a “flagship project” for Iran’s efforts to arm Hezbollah on Israel’s northern border, according to the IDF ...