Sunday, 12 March, 2023 , 10:41 AFP — Iran's judiciary on Sunday confirmed a death sentence for a Swedish-Iranian dissident for "terrorism" over two years since his disappearance at an airport in Turkey, the judiciary's Mizan Online website reported.

Sunday, 12 March, 2023 , 09:21 AFP — Iran has announced more than 100 arrests nationwide over the mystery poisonings of thousands of schoolgirls, charging that the unidentified alleged perpetrators may have links with "hostile" groups.

Saturday, 11 March, 2023 , 19:53 AFP — Children of foreign jihadists play football on a dirt field at a centre in northeastern Syria that Kurdish authorities hope will help rehabilitate minors raised on Islamic State group ideology.

Saturday, 11 March, 2023 , 16:12 AFP — Children of foreign jihadists play football on a dirt field at a centre in northeastern Syria that Kurdish authorities hope will help rehabilitate minors raised on Islamic State group ideology.

Saturday, 11 March, 2023 , 16:10 AFP — A US general warned Saturday that the Middle East faces the looming threat of an Islamic State group "army in detention", after visiting prisons and camps in northeastern Syria holding suspected jihadists and their relatives.

Saturday, 11 March, 2023 , 13:39 AFP — Suspected Islamic State group militants on Saturday killed three truffle hunters and kidnapped at least 26 others in northern Syria, a war monitor said, in the latest attack during this year's harvest.

Saturday, 11 March, 2023 , 09:53 AFP — Gunmen ambushed and killed two Iranian policemen on patrol in the restive southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, state media reported Saturday.

Saturday, 11 March, 2023 , 09:36 AFP — Children of foreign jihadists play football on a dirt field at a centre in northeastern Syria that Kurdish authorities hope will help rehabilitate minors raised on Islamic State group ideology.

Friday, 10 March, 2023 , 15:10 AFP — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday banned music from his campaign stops and vowed to heal the earthquake-stricken nation's wounds as he formally set the next election for May 14.

Friday, 10 March, 2023 , 14:26 AFP — Transforming society in his image over two tumultuous decades, Recep Tayyip Erdogan enters the fight of his political life in a May election overshadowed by the pain and suffering of Turkey's deadliest earthquake in centuries.