Wednesday, 9 April, 2025 , 09:24 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.

Tuesday, 8 April, 2025 , 18:48 AFP — Pro-Turkey Syrian groups have scaled down their military presence in a historically Kurdish-majority area of the country's north which they have controlled since 2018, a Syrian defence ministry official said on Tuesday.

Tuesday, 8 April, 2025 , 15:52 AFP — Pro-Turkey Syrian groups have scaled down their military presence in an historically Kurdish-majority area of the country's north which they have controlled since 2018, a Syrian defence ministry official said on Tuesday.

Tuesday, 8 April, 2025 , 15:26 AFP — Two German left-wing extremists who had been living in exile in Venezuela were given suspended sentences on Tuesday for planning an attack in the 1990s, after they returned to Germany under a plea deal.

Tuesday, 8 April, 2025 , 04:06 AFP — All of the women in Iranian model Azadeh's family have had nose surgeries, each feeling the pressure to conform with Western beauty standards in a country where female bodies are heavily policed.

Monday, 7 April, 2025 , 15:47 AFP — Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa will on Friday visit Turkey, a key supporter of his Islamist-led coalition which toppled president Bashar al-Assad, a Turkish official said on Monday.

Friday, 4 April, 2025 , 18:17 AFP — Kurdish fighters withdrew Friday from two neighbourhoods of Syria's Aleppo city, a local official and state media said, part of a broader push to integrate Kurdish-led institutions into the new Syrian state.

Tuesday, 1 April, 2025 , 21:36 AFP — Two people were injured on Tuesday in a cleaver attack on an Assyrian Christian celebration in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, officials said, pointing to the Islamic State jihadist group.

Tuesday, 1 April, 2025 , 17:53 AFP — Two people were injured on Tuesday in an attack on an Assyrian Christian celebration in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, officials said.

Tuesday, 1 April, 2025 , 15:54 AFP — A Swedish journalist arrested on arrival in Turkey and detained on terrorism charges is being kept away from other prisoners but is otherwise in "good spirits", his employer said Tuesday.