Saturday, 26 November, 2022 , 21:03 AFP — Iranian authorities on Saturday released on bail former international footballer Voria Ghafouri and prominent dissident Hossein Ronaghi, two of the most prominent figures detained in the crackdown on the protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, reports said.

Saturday, 26 November, 2022 , 12:28 AFP — Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saturday that negotiating with the United States would not put an end to the "troubles" that have rocked the Islamic republic over the past two months.

Saturday, 26 November, 2022 , 08:34 AFP — Two rockets targeted a US patrol base in northeastern Syria late Friday, the third such attack in nine days, US Central Command said.

Friday, 25 November, 2022 , 20:37 AFP — Police arrested dozens of people in Istanbul on Friday at a rally to mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

Friday, 25 November, 2022 , 13:55 AFP — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday vowed to protect Turkey's southern border with a "safe zone" in Syria after Ankara launched a barrage of air strikes against Kurdish fighters.

Friday, 25 November, 2022 , 13:27 AFP — Iranian security forces opened fire on protests after Friday prayers in the restive southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, leaving dozens of people dead or wounded, activists said.

Friday, 25 November, 2022 , 13:09 AFP — In the Syrian Kurdish city of Kobane, gripped by fear of a Turkish offensive, Saleh Abdo Khalil passes an open-air "museum" of buildings reduced to rubble.

Friday, 25 November, 2022 , 11:39 AFP — Iran's foreign ministry has condemned a United Nations Human Rights Council decision to probe the Islamic republic's response to unrest following the death of Mahsa Amini.

Friday, 25 November, 2022 , 09:19 AFP — Iran's Revolutionary Guards have sent reinforcements to the country's protest-hit Kurdish areas in order to stop the infiltration of "terrorists" from neighbouring Iraq, a general said in a report on Friday.

Thursday, 24 November, 2022 , 19:18 AFP — Iran told the UN on Thursday that it had no choice but to act in self-defence by striking Kurdish rebel groups in northern Iraq, state media reported.