White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday invoked the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. Here's how the US tried - and ...

Iranians burn an American flag outside the former United States Embassy in Tehran in 2011. (Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images) ...

After months of humiliation during the Iran hostage crisis, the U.S. attempted a bold rescue mission deep inside hostile territory. Elite Delta Force operators prepared to storm the American embassy ...

On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 66 Americans hostage. What was expected to last days stretched into 444 humiliating days for the United States.

Long before the open warfare of recent months, the US and Iran have been locked into decades of low-level conflict. Since the ...

Dozens of direct or indirect attacks on Americans both militarily and civilian-wise have been carried out or aided by Iran's ...

Police rushed to Temple Israel near Detroit following reports of an active shooter, with smoke billowing from the synagogue's ...

Barry Rosen and John Limbert were among 52 people held at the US embassy in Tehran from November 1979 to January 1981 ...

Between 1953 and 1977, the U.S. and Iran had a mostly cordial relationship. During the 1960s, the U.S. assisted Iran in creating its nuclear program, providing a nuclear reactor and significant ...

On April 30, 1980, a group of six armed men stormed the Iranian embassy in South Kensington, marking the start of a six-day standoff.

The American Embassy in Tehran, Iran. On that day, in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution that had overthrown the Shah, followers from the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam’s Line descended on ...