Friday, 3 January, 2025 , 15:19 AFP — Visiting French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot called on Syria's new rulers Friday to reach a settlement with Kurdish authorities in the northeast.

Friday, 3 January, 2025 , 14:41 AFP — The European Union backs a peaceful, inclusive transition in Syria, top French and German diplomats said Friday on a Damascus visit to meet with new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa.

Friday, 3 January, 2025 , 14:21 AFP — France's foreign minister, on a visit to Syria, said Friday that Syria's new rulers must reach a settlement with the semi-autonomous Kurdish administration that controls swathes of Syria's northeast.

Friday, 3 January, 2025 , 12:37 AFP — The European Union backs a peaceful, inclusive transition in Syria, top French and German diplomats said Friday on a Damascus visit to meet with new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa.

Friday, 3 January, 2025 , 11:16 AFP — Saydnaya prison north of the Syrian capital Damascus has become a symbol of the inhumane abuses of the Assad clan, especially since the country's civil war erupted in 2011.

Thursday, 2 January, 2025 , 20:52 AFP — At least 24 fighters, mostly from Turkish-backed groups, were killed in clashes with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northern Manbij district, a war monitor said on Thursday.

Thursday, 2 January, 2025 , 16:45 AFP — Authorities in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah have banned four organisations accused of affiliation with the Turkish-blacklisted Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), activists said Thursday, denouncing the move as "political".

Thursday, 2 January, 2025 , 13:52 AFP — A delegation from Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition DEM party met Thursday with the parliamentary speaker and far-right MHP leader amid tentative efforts to resume dialogue between Ankara and the banned PKK militant group.

Thursday, 2 January, 2025 , 12:47 AFP — Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, will publish her autobiography and is working on a book on women held like her on political charges, she said in an interview published Thursday.

Thursday, 2 January, 2025 , 12:45 AFP — Ardavan Yousefi has gotten so used to life under Iran's sweeping internet restrictions that for him, a recent decision to lift a ban on messaging service WhatsApp went virtually unnoticed.