Friday, 18 October, 2024 , 11:59 AFP — A four-month baby died when an overloaded migrant boat headed for Britain sank in the Channel off the coast of France in the latest tragedy involving asylum seekers, French authorities said on Friday.

Friday, 18 October, 2024 , 05:12 AFP — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visits Turkey Saturday for talks with Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the escalating Middle East crisis and migration, while Ankara hopes to speed up the purchase of Eurofighter jets.

Thursday, 17 October, 2024 , 13:51 AFP — The mothers of four French Islamists who "disappeared" after going to areas of Syria controlled by the Islamic State group asked the UN anti-torture committee Thursday to pressure Paris to bring them home.

Wednesday, 16 October, 2024 , 01:25 AFP — Iraqi Kurdish seamstress Sanaa will, like many other voters, boycott an election later this month, a signal of growing disillusionment with the political class that has long dominated the autonomous region.

Saturday, 12 October, 2024 , 12:04 AFP — Iran's highest court has overturned the death sentence of a woman labour rights activist who was accused of links to an outlawed Kurdish group, local media reported Saturday.

Friday, 11 October, 2024 , 15:35 AFP — A Vienna court on Friday ordered that an Austrian woman who joined the Islamic State group in Syria be repatriated along with two children she bore to jihadist fighters there.

Thursday, 10 October, 2024 , 12:52 AFP — Iraq repatriated 706 people from Syria's Al-Hol camp, home to tens of thousands of people including family members of suspected jihadists, a security source said Thursday.

Thursday, 3 October, 2024 , 17:30 AFP — A decade after finding refuge in Lebanon from civil war in his native Syria, Ahmad Mustafa fled in the other direction this week from a new conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

Wednesday, 2 October, 2024 , 14:35 AFP — Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and three wounded Wednesday in an ambush by fighters of the Islamic State group in Kirkuk province in the north, the interior ministry said.

Friday, 27 September, 2024 , 20:37 AFP — Germany said Friday it had agreed a plan with Turkey under which Berlin will step up deportations of failed Turkish asylum seekers, but Ankara denied any such deal had been struck.