Sunday, 18 May, 2025 , 20:36 AFP — A "major" shift is needed to repair broken ties between the Turkish state and the country's Kurdish minority following the historic decision of the Kurdistan Workers Party to disarm, its jailed founder said Sunday.

Sunday, 18 May, 2025 , 16:10 AFP — Turkey's drug squad has destroyed 30,000 marijuana plants being secretly grown in a vast terraced garden by the Tigris River that is on the UN Cultural Heritage list, media reports said on Sunday.

Saturday, 17 May, 2025 , 19:53 AFP — Syria's defence minister on Saturday gave holdout armed groups a 10-day deadline to join the war-torn country's forces, in the latest push to unify ranks following Bashar al-Assad's ouster.

Saturday, 17 May, 2025 , 17:37 AFP — Syria's interior ministry said a member of the security forces was killed in an operation that left three Islamic State group jihadists dead on Saturday in the northern city of Aleppo.

Saturday, 17 May, 2025 , 14:20 AFP — Syria's interior ministry said a member of the security forces was killed Saturday in clashes with an Islamic State jihadist group cell in the northern city of Aleppo.

Saturday, 17 May, 2025 , 12:13 AFP — A Swedish journalist jailed in Turkey for nearly two months on a charge of "insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday hailed his freedom after being released and returning home.

Friday, 16 May, 2025 , 17:15 AFP — A Swedish journalist arrested at the end of March in Turkey and jailed for "insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been freed and is heading home, Stockholm said on Friday.

Thursday, 15 May, 2025 , 13:07 AFP — Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, branded Donald Trump's decision to lift US sanctions on his country "historic and courageous", calling it a turning point for a nation shattered by war and isolation.

Thursday, 15 May, 2025 , 10:32 AFP — Turkey's military will continue acting against PKK militants in regions where they are present until it is "certain" the threat is removed following the Kurdish group's decision to disband, the defence ministry said Thursday, in a nod to its presence notably in Iraq.

Thursday, 15 May, 2025 , 10:26 AFP — Swedish prosecutors said on Thursday the intelligence service's arrests of a Kurdish representative and a Swedish diplomat were not linked to a journalist facing "terror" charges in Turkey.