Tuesday, 12 August, 2025 , 12:41 AFP — Syria's foreign minister and a senior official in the country's Kurdish administration have met in Damascus, sources from both sides told AFP on Tuesday, days after the government boycotted talks in France.
Monday, 11 August, 2025 , 18:20 AFP — Power was out across Iraq on Monday as scorching summer temperatures pushed electricity grid demand to unprecedented levels, authorities said.
Saturday, 9 August, 2025 , 10:16 AFP — A Syrian government official said Saturday that authorities would not participate in planned talks in Paris on integrating the Kurdish semi-autonomous administration into the Syrian state and demanded future negotiations be held in Damascus.
Friday, 8 August, 2025 , 10:05 AFP — A bill in Iraq that would further formalise the role -- and perhaps, the autonomy -- of a powerful coalition of pro-Iran former paramilitaries has sparked a heated debate, fanned in part by US pressure.
Friday, 1 August, 2025 , 02:31 AFP — A senior leader of Turkey's beleaguered main opposition party accused the government of fabricating enemies in a politically motivated crackdown to reassert control after its election defeat last year, in an interview with AFP.
Wednesday, 30 July, 2025 , 17:05 AFP — A choking heatwave left astonished locals in southeastern Turkey calling for state help to pay their air conditioning bills after the temperature surged past 50C.
Tuesday, 29 July, 2025 , 22:22 AFP — An American citizen child has been repatriated from a camp in northeast Syria for "unification" with family, the US State Department said Tuesday.
Tuesday, 29 July, 2025 , 05:55 AFP — Kemal Ozdemir looked up at the bare peaks of Mount Cilo in Turkey's Kurdish majority southeast: "There were glaciers 10 years ago," he recalled under a cloudless sky.
Monday, 28 July, 2025 , 15:49 AFP — Firefighters battled blazes across Turkey and Bulgaria on Monday as a deadly heatwave went into a second week around much of the Mediterranean.
Monday, 28 July, 2025 , 14:37 AFP — Firefighters battled blazes across Turkey on Monday as the country sweltered in a summer heatwave across much of the Mediterranean, with wildfires leading to at least 14 deaths in the country in the past week.
