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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.

Syria Kurds say they thwarted escape bid from camp for IS families


Wednesday, 3 September, 2025 , 11:19 AFP Syrian Kurdish forces said Wednesday they thwarted an escape attempt by more than 50 inmates of Al-Hol camp, which holds people suspected of ties to the Islamic State (IS) group.

Hope and hate: how migrant influx has changed Germany


Wednesday, 3 September, 2025 , 01:02 AFP Men sit outside shisha bars and women in hijabs push strollers past Middle Eastern restaurants and pastry shops in Berlin's Sonnenallee, a wide avenue which has become a symbol of how much Germany has changed in the last decade.