Wednesday, 23 April, 2025 , 07:31 AFP — France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot will meet officials in Baghdad on Wednesday as part of a regional tour to push for a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Saturday, 19 April, 2025 , 05:35 AFP — Last month's jailing of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu may have ousted Recep Tayyip Erdogan's biggest rival but the Turkish president is struggling to stamp out the spirit of protest ignited in Turkey's youth.

Friday, 18 April, 2025 , 21:22 AFP — The United States will roughly halve the number of troops it has deployed in Syria to less than 1,000 in the coming months, the Pentagon said Friday.

Friday, 18 April, 2025 , 20:48 AFP — The United States will roughly halve the number of troops it has deployed in Syria to less than 1,000 in the coming months, the Pentagon said on Friday.

Sunday, 13 April, 2025 , 17:52 AFP — A powerful armed faction in southern Syria led by defected military officer Ahmed al-Awdeh on Sunday announced that it was dissolving itself and integrating into the government's armed forces.

Saturday, 12 April, 2025 , 14:41 AFP — Security forces from the new Islamist government in Damascus deployed Saturday around a strategic dam in northern Syria, under a deal with the autonomous Kurdish administration, state media reported.

Thursday, 10 April, 2025 , 17:31 AFP — The Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria have struck a deal with the central government on running a key dam they captured from jihadists with US support, a Kurdish source said Thursday.

Wednesday, 9 April, 2025 , 19:29 AFP — Iran on Wednesday executed five men accused of belonging to banned Sunni Muslim groups, rights groups said, describing them as "political prisoners" who had been subjected to an unjust trial.

Wednesday, 9 April, 2025 , 14:53 AFP — A Vienna court on Wednesday convicted an Austrian woman brought back from a Syrian detention camp for having been part of the Islamic State group, but ordered her jail sentence to be suspended in the first such case in the country.

Wednesday, 9 April, 2025 , 09:28 AFP — An Austrian woman who was brought back alongside her son from a Syrian detention camp went on trial in Vienna on Wednesday, in the first such case in the country.