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Kurdish PKK leader allowed to meet lawyers for first time in six years


Wednesday, 17 September, 2025 , 16:58 AFP The jailed founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party, Abdullah Ocalan, has been allowed to meet his lawyers for the first time in six years, his legal team said on Wednesday.

Thousands of Syrian Kurds rally for decentralisation


Wednesday, 17 September, 2025 , 13:12 AFP Thousands of people in Kurdish-controlled northeastern Syria rallied Wednesday in support of their autonomous administration and called for decentralisation as negotiations with Damascus over the region's future stall.

France repatriates three women, 10 children from Syrian camps


Tuesday, 16 September, 2025 , 14:45 AFP France on Tuesday repatriated three women and 10 children from Syrian camps housing alleged jihadists, anti-terror prosecutors said, in the first such operation in two years.

France repatriates three women, 10 children from Syrian camps


Tuesday, 16 September, 2025 , 11:56 AFP France on Tuesday repatriated three women and 10 children from Syrian prisons for alleged jihadists, anti-terror prosecutors said, in the first such operation in two years.

France repatriates 3 women, 10 children from Syrian camps


Tuesday, 16 September, 2025 , 08:42 AFP France on Tuesday repatriated three women and 10 children from Syrian prisons for alleged jihadists, anti-terror prosecutors said -- a move that remains divisive a decade after the 2015 attacks in Paris.

Kidnapped academic Tsurkov in Israel after release from Iraq


Wednesday, 10 September, 2025 , 20:35 AFP Israeli-Russian academic Elizabeth Tsurkov arrived in Israel on Monday, a day after she was released more than two years after her kidnapping in Baghdad.

Kidnapped Israeli-Russian academic Tsurkov released in Iraq


Wednesday, 10 September, 2025 , 09:29 AFP Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday the release of Israeli-Russian academic Elizabeth Tsurkov who was kidnapped in Baghdad in March 2023.

Kidnapped academic Elizabeth Tsurkov released in Iraq


Tuesday, 9 September, 2025 , 22:09 AFP Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday the release of Israeli-Russian academic Elizabeth Tsurkov who was kidnapped in Baghdad in March 2023.

Lawyers caught in Turkey's crackdown on opposition


Monday, 8 September, 2025 , 15:32 AFP Turkish lawyers defending human rights or representing clients who challenge state policies have found themselves increasingly caught in the crossfire of the crackdown on its main opposition party.

Iran executes man over attack on security forces at 2022 protests


Saturday, 6 September, 2025 , 06:47 AFP Iranian authorities executed a man on Saturday after convicting him over a deadly attack on security personnel during nationwide protests in 2022, the country's judiciary announced.