Friday, 2 June, 2023 , 06:52 AFP — When the Syrian Kurdish sisters Perwin and Norshean Salih sing about loss, it comes from the heart.

Thursday, 1 June, 2023 , 14:01 AFP — NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday said he would visit Ankara "in the near future" to push the ratification of Sweden's membership, after the re-election of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Thursday, 1 June, 2023 , 06:50 AFP — NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday said he would visit Ankara "in the near future" to push the ratification of Sweden's membership, after the re-election of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Wednesday, 31 May, 2023 , 02:03 AFP — Iraq's shrunken and conflict-scarred Christian community is launching a new television channel as part of efforts to save their dying language, spoken for more than 2,000 years.

Tuesday, 30 May, 2023 , 21:29 AFP — NATO's chief voiced guarded optimism Tuesday on welcoming Sweden to the alliance as the United States pressed holdout Turkey to drop its objections, two days after President Tayyip Recep Erdogan won re-election.

Tuesday, 30 May, 2023 , 19:10 AFP — NATO's chief voiced guarded optimism Tuesday on welcoming Sweden to the alliance as the United States pressed holdout Turkey to drop its objections, two days after President Tayyip Recep Erdogan won re-election.

Tuesday, 30 May, 2023 , 18:19 AFP — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday called on Turkey's re-elected leader to drop his objections to Sweden's membership in NATO, urging movement on ratification before an alliance summit in July.

Tuesday, 30 May, 2023 , 17:49 AFP — Iraq's supreme court on Tuesday ruled as unconstitutional the extended mandate of autonomous Kurdistan's parliament, rendering invalid votes taken by the chamber since last year.

Tuesday, 30 May, 2023 , 17:47 AFP — An Iranian reporter detained since September after she exposed the case of Mahsa Amini that sparked nationwide protests Tuesday denied all charges against her as her trial on national security charges opened in Tehran, her husband said.

Tuesday, 30 May, 2023 , 17:33 AFP — An Iranian journalist who covered the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, which triggered months of deadly protests, went on trial in the Islamic republic on Tuesday, her newspaper said.