Monday, 6 March, 2023 , 20:07 AFP — Turkey's bickering opposition leaders ended months of fierce debate Monday and agreed to name the head of the main secular party as their joint candidate against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in May 14 polls.

Monday, 6 March, 2023 , 19:59 AFP — It took more than a decade and some bitter defeats for Kemal Kilicdaroglu to secure the Turkish opposition's trust and become its torchbearer in May's crucial parliamentary and presidential polls.

Monday, 6 March, 2023 , 09:13 AFP — The head of the UN cultural agency on Monday started a three-day visit to Iraq where many priceless cultural treasures have been damaged or destroyed during decades of conflict.

Monday, 6 March, 2023 , 08:41 AFP — Iran has sentenced to death six men over attacks carried out by an ethnic Arab "terrorist group" active in a province bordering Iraq, the judiciary said Monday.

Thursday, 2 March, 2023 , 14:45 AFP — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for the swift repatriation of foreigners held in Syria's infamous Al-Hol camp which houses relatives of jihadists.

Thursday, 2 March, 2023 , 14:23 AFP — Iranian authorities arrested four people Thursday in connection with an assault on a woman outside a girls' school targeted in a wave of poisoning attacks, a news agency said.

Thursday, 2 March, 2023 , 13:27 AFP — Iranian authorities arrested four people Thursday in connection with an assault on a woman outside a girls' school targeted in a wave of poisoning attacks, a news agency said.

Thursday, 2 March, 2023 , 04:14 AFP — Activists are mobilising to reverse what they warn is a stark decline in women's rights in the run-up to International Women's Day on March 8.

Thursday, 2 March, 2023 , 03:40 AFP — "Listen to this! One. Two. Three!" Down the crackling phone line from the women's wing of Tehran's Evin prison, a chorus of prisoners then launch into raucous song.

Wednesday, 1 March, 2023 , 17:23 AFP — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Iraq to "break cycles of instability and fragility" after talks with senior officials in Baghdad on Wednesday, following a drawn-out political crisis in the war-torn country.