Friday, 10 March, 2023 , 13:50 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.

Friday, 10 March, 2023 , 12:54 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 , 03:17 AFP — It took just three weeks for the decades-old regime of Iraq's feared dictator Saddam Hussein to fall in one of the most controversial foreign military interventions of modern times.

Friday, 10 March, 2023 , 03:17 AFP — Two decades after the US-led invasion of Iraq toppled Saddam Hussein, its war-weary people recount their painful memories of dictatorship, major conflict and years of violent turmoil.

Friday, 10 March, 2023 , 03:17 AFP — Twenty years after the US-led invasion of Iraq toppled Saddam Hussein, the oil-rich country remains deeply scarred by the conflict and, while closer to the United States, far from the liberal democracy Washington had envisioned.

Thursday, 9 March, 2023 , 17:22 AFP — Representatives from Turkey, Sweden and Finland agreed at a meeting Thursday to hold more talks on the stalled bids by the Nordic countries to join NATO, the alliance said.

Thursday, 9 March, 2023 , 13:48 AFP — Turkey's top court on Thursday restored the funding of a pro-Kurdish party that has emerged as a kingmaker in crucial May 14 parliamentary and presidential polls.

Wednesday, 8 March, 2023 , 23:44 AFP — Women hit the streets from Kabul to Mexico City on Wednesday to mark International Women's Day and stand up for rights that are coming under increasing attack.

Wednesday, 8 March, 2023 , 16:55 AFP — The British government hit back on Wednesday at critics including the United Nations and football presenter Gary Lineker, after he compared its new plan on illegal immigration to the rhetoric of Nazi-era Germany.

Tuesday, 7 March, 2023 , 22:28 AFP — Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said Tuesday he hoped to "strengthen and broaden" relations with Iraq, on a Baghdad visit ahead of the 20th anniversary of the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.