Wednesday, 2 August, 2023 , 14:41 AFP — Iran hanged 11 members of the Baluch minority on drugs charges within a 48-hour period, an NGO said Wednesday, raising alarm the community is disproportionately targeted in a spate of executions.

Wednesday, 2 August, 2023 , 03:06 AFP — Around war-torn Syria's biggest freshwater dam reservoir, fishermen say their catch is now a fraction of what it used to be as environmental pressures have decimated aquatic life.

Tuesday, 1 August, 2023 , 12:52 AFP — The Yazidis, who Britain on Tuesday officially acknowledged as victims of "acts of genocide" by the Islamic State (IS), are a Kurdish-speaking ethno-religious minority found mainly in Iraq.

Tuesday, 1 August, 2023 , 12:40 AFP — Islamic State group jihadists attacked a convoy of oil tankers guarded by the army in the Syrian desert on Tuesday, killing seven people including two civilians, a war monitor said.

Tuesday, 1 August, 2023 , 12:20 AFP — The British government on Tuesday officially acknowledged that the Islamic State group committed "acts of genocide" against the Yazidi people in 2014.

Tuesday, 1 August, 2023 , 10:19 AFP — The British government on Tuesday officially acknowledged that the Islamic State group committed "acts of genocide" against the Yazidi people in 2014, the foreign ministry said in a statement.

Saturday, 29 July, 2023 , 08:26 AFP — Iranian authorities have banned the editor-in-chief of reformist daily Etemad "from any press activity for a year" over coverage of last year's nationwide protests, the newspaper reported on Saturday.

Saturday, 29 July, 2023 , 06:40 AFP — Four "fighters" from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed by a drone strike in northern Iraq, officials in the autonomous Kurdistan region said, blaming the Turkish military.

Friday, 28 July, 2023 , 19:58 AFP — A drone strike near the border with Turkey late on Friday killed four members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the autonomous Kurdish adminstration in northeastern Syria said.

Thursday, 27 July, 2023 , 14:01 AFP — A helicopter belonging to the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq crashed Thursday, a Kurdish security official said, after what the coalition described as an "in-flight mishap".