The Zagros mountains, in Western Iran, stretch for nearly 1,000 miles, from the sands of the Persian Gulf northwest along the modern border with Iraq and Turkey, separating the plains of ...

Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains, a massive geological shift is unfolding. Scientists have detected that the Neotethys oceanic plate is tearing apart horizontally, altering the region’s ...

Arash Raksha's debut feature "All That the Mountains Grant" explores Kurdish Kolbar life on Iran-Iraq border. Praised by The ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the ...

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 Iranian western city of Kermanshah is considered one of the cradles of prehistoric cultures, because of its antiquity, attractive landscapes, rich culture, and Neolithic villages.