Tuesday, 10 February, 2026 , 09:54 AFP — More than 4,500 suspected jihadists have been transferred from Syria to Iraq as part of a US operation to relocate Islamic State group detainees, an Iraqi official told AFP on Tuesday.

Sunday, 8 February, 2026 , 19:38 AFP — Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi is in "deteriorating health" after ending a nearly week-long hunger strike, her supporters said Sunday, as authorities handed the campaigner a fresh prison sentence.

Saturday, 7 February, 2026 , 16:00 AFP — Iraq has so far received 2,225 Islamic State group detainees, whom the US military began transferring from Syria last month, an Iraqi official told AFP on Saturday.

Saturday, 7 February, 2026 , 14:16 AFP — Iranian authorities have arrested 11 members of an outlawed Kurdish group on suspicion of committing acts of sabotage, state television said on Saturday.

Friday, 6 February, 2026 , 23:04 AFP — France's financial crimes prosecutors told AFP Friday they had opened a preliminary investigation into influential former minister Jack Lang and his daughter Caroline after revelations in the Epstein files.

Friday, 6 February, 2026 , 20:36 AFP — France's foreign minister said Friday he had summoned former minister Jack Lang to a weekend meeting, as calls mounted for Lang to resign as head of a leading French cultural institute over his ties to convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Friday, 6 February, 2026 , 17:29 AFP — As calls mounted for former minister Jack Lang to resign as head of a leading French cultural institute over his ties to convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, France's foreign minister said Friday he had summoned Lang to a weekend meeting.

Friday, 6 February, 2026 , 16:22 AFP — Amid mounting calls for former minister Jack Lang to resign as head of a leading French cultural institute over his ties to convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the foreign minister said Friday he had summoned Lang to a weekend meeting.

Thursday, 5 February, 2026 , 20:33 AFP — France's foreign minister said Thursday that sustaining the fight against the Islamic State group is an "absolute priority" for Paris, after meeting his Syrian counterpart in Damascus before heading on to Iraqi Kurdistan.

Thursday, 5 February, 2026 , 11:58 AFP — A UK inquiry into the deadliest recorded small boat Channel crossing on Thursday ruled some of the deaths in the 2021 sinking were "avoidable".