Wednesday, 22 March, 2023 , 09:38 AFP — Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party said Wednesday it would not field a presidential candidate in May elections, giving tacit support to Recep Tayyip Erdogan's rival in the crucial vote.
Wednesday, 22 March, 2023 , 04:09 AFP — Mohammad Javad enters a fashionable shop in well-to-do north Tehran with his mother. For the first time ever he wants a necktie, long banned in Iran as a symbol of Western decadence.
Tuesday, 21 March, 2023 , 17:05 AFP — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged Tuesday to step up the flow of water along the Tigris River to drought-stricken Iraq for one month.
Tuesday, 21 March, 2023 , 15:59 AFP — Iran's supreme leader on Tuesday said the Islamic republic is not "upset" with European nations and is ready to work with them if they do not "blindly follow US policies".
Tuesday, 21 March, 2023 , 12:35 AFP — Thousands of angry Kurds rallied in rebel-held northern Syria on Tuesday after pro-Turkish fighters killed four fellow Kurds who were celebrating their Nowruz new year festival, an AFP correspondent reported.
Tuesday, 21 March, 2023 , 04:32 AFP — In a palm grove north of Baghdad, bemused Iraqi shepherds looked on as models paraded second-hand garments down an improvised catwalk, seeking to raise awareness of the fashion industry's environmental impact.
Monday, 20 March, 2023 , 20:53 AFP — Turkish-backed fighters shot at a family of Kurds celebrating the festival of Nowruz in northern Syria on Monday, killing at least four people, a war monitor said.
Monday, 20 March, 2023 , 18:06 AFP — Iran's protest anthem "Baraye" played at a White House celebration Monday marking Nowruz, the Persian New Year.
Monday, 20 March, 2023 , 12:30 AFP — The UK on Monday sanctioned more senior officials of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including financiers and commanders, in its latest set of asset freezes and visa bans.
Monday, 20 March, 2023 , 10:25 AFP — Iraq's parliament has set November 6 as the date for elections for provincial councils, powerful bodies that were dissolved amid anti-government protests in 2019.
