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US general warns of IS 'army in detention' in Syria, Iraq


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.

Three truffle hunters killed, 26 kidnapped in north Syria: monitor


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.

Gunmen kill two police in Iran's southeast: state media


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.

Syria centre seeks to rehabilitate IS-scarred foreign children


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.

Erdogan sounds starting gun to sombre election campaign


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.

Erdogan: Turkey's mercurial 'chief' in fight of political life


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.

Erdogan: Turkey's mercurial 'chief' in fight of political life


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.

Erdogan sounds starting gun to sombre election campaign


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.

Shock and awe: the toppling of Saddam Hussein 20 years ago


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.

Pain and faint hopes as Iraqis look back at US invasion


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.