Wednesday, 26 July, 2023 , 08:31 AFP — Iran's Supreme Court has quashed a death sentence handed down to a 23-year-old man convicted of killing a policeman during nationwide protests last year, local media reported Wednesday.

Sunday, 23 July, 2023 , 17:35 AFP — Hundreds of people protested in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region on Sunday in support of a jailed journalist hit with a new sentence before he was due to be freed.

Sunday, 23 July, 2023 , 12:43 AFP — Iranian authorities have banned a film festival that put out a publicity poster featuring an actress who was not wearing a hijab headscarf, state media reported.

Saturday, 22 July, 2023 , 19:54 AFP — Around 6,000 Kurds rallied on Saturday to demonstrate against the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Lausanne which defined the borders of modern Turkey but shattered aspirations for a Kurdish state.

Saturday, 22 July, 2023 , 18:26 AFP — Around 6,000 Kurds rallied on Saturday to mark the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Lausanne which defined the borders of modern Turkey but shattered aspirations for a Kurdish state.

Saturday, 22 July, 2023 , 03:51 AFP — Like other Iranian Kurds who fled into exile during last year's women-led mass protests, 17-year-old Sarina tries to keep a low profile in her new home in northern Iraq.

Friday, 21 July, 2023 , 15:27 AFP — Adolescent boys are systematically being separated from their mothers in detention camps in northeast Syria, a UN expert said Friday, warning the practice was causing irreparable harm and violated international law.

Friday, 21 July, 2023 , 14:33 AFP — Adolescent boys are systematically being separated from their mothers in detention camps in northeast Syria, a UN expert said Friday, warning the practice was causing irreparable harm and violated international law.

Wednesday, 19 July, 2023 , 19:33 AFP — Baghdad on Wednesday criticised Washington after the US State Department expressed concern about "harassment" of the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic church in Iraq.

Wednesday, 19 July, 2023 , 13:05 AFP — A court in Iran has given a prominent actress a suspended two-year prison sentence for failing to wear the compulsory hijab headscarf in public, local media reported on Wednesday.