Wednesday, 30 April, 2025 , 23:12 AFP — A Turkish court on Wednesday handed a Swedish journalist an 11-month suspended sentence for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but he remains behind bars awaiting trial on a second more serious charge.

Wednesday, 30 April, 2025 , 23:06 AFP — Iran executed a man on Wednesday after convicting him of spying for Israel and assisting in the murder of a Revolutionary Guards colonel in a trial activists said was unfair and based on a confession obtained by torture.

Wednesday, 30 April, 2025 , 01:44 AFP — A Swedish journalist arrested on arrival in Istanbul to cover last month's massive street protests goes on trial Wednesday on charges of insulting Turkey's president, his lawyer said.

Tuesday, 29 April, 2025 , 13:46 AFP — Kurdish-led forces said Tuesday that they had lost five fighters to Islamic State group attacks in eastern Syria, adding they had intensified security measures in the area.

Tuesday, 29 April, 2025 , 12:50 AFP — Five Iraqi Kurdish security personnel were wounded in two drone attacks in northern Iraq in less than 48 hours, authorities in the autonomous Kurdistan region said on Tuesday.

Sunday, 27 April, 2025 , 19:48 AFP — Iraq's judiciary has acquitted the influential former parliament speaker, Mohammed al-Halbussi, after dismissing him in 2023 over accusations of forging a document, his office announced Sunday.

Sunday, 27 April, 2025 , 15:35 AFP — The Syrian presidency rejected on Sunday a Kurdish call for a decentralised state, warning against attempts at separatism or federalism by the minority group.

Sunday, 27 April, 2025 , 14:37 AFP — The Syrian presidency rejected on Sunday a Kurdish call for a decentralised state, warning against attempts at separatism or federalism by the minority group.

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Saturday, 26 April, 2025 , 16:00 AFP — Syria's Kurdish parties on Saturday adopted a joint political vision calling for a "decentralised democratic" state in Syria with guarantees for Kurdish rights.