Monday, 8 June, 2026 , 07:42 AFP — Israel and Iran exchanged attacks on Monday for the first time since a ceasefire in the Middle East war took effect two months ago, despite US President Donald Trump calling for restraint.

Monday, 8 June, 2026 , 06:27 AFP — Israel and Iran traded fire on Monday, seriously testing a fragile truce and threatening hopes for a deal to end the Middle East war.

Monday, 8 June, 2026 , 05:22 AFP — Israel and Iran traded fire on Monday, seriously testing a fragile truce and threating hopes for a deal to end the Middle East war.

Monday, 8 June, 2026 , 03:27 AFP — Israel said Monday it had struck targets across Iran, defying US President Donald Trump's call to refrain from retaliating against Tehran's barrage of missiles.

Monday, 8 June, 2026 , 00:00 AFP — Iran's Revolutionary Guards targeted the headquarters of "terrorist groups" in Iraqi Kurdistan, state media reported Monday.

Sunday, 7 June, 2026 , 23:51 AFP — Iran's Revolutionary Guards targeted the headquarters of "terrorist groups" in Iraqi Kurdistan, state media reported Monday.

Saturday, 6 June, 2026 , 15:47 AFP — Prosecutors on Saturday opened a probe into a 95-year-old billionaire and honorary head of Koc Holdings, Turkey's biggest conglomerate, over a joke about a Kurdish woman widely denounced as sexist and racist.

Thursday, 4 June, 2026 , 11:11 AFP — Franco-Iranian author and film director Marjane Satrapi, renowned for her graphic novel and film "Persepolis", has died aged 56, a year after the passing of "the love of her life", a member of her close circle told AFP on Thursday.

Thursday, 4 June, 2026 , 09:15 AFP — Franco-Iranian author and film director Marjane Satrapi, best known for the graphic novel and film "Persepolis", has died aged 56, AFP learned Thursday from a member of her close circle.

Saturday, 30 May, 2026 , 14:11 AFP — The influential Iraqi armed group Kataeb Hezbollah pledged on Saturday to keep up its "jihadist action", as Baghdad faces mounting US pressure to disarm factions backed by Iran.