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Iran protests rage on in defiance of crackdown


Tuesday, 1 November, 2022 , 08:20 AFP Iranians staged new protest actions to denounce the country's theocratic regime in defiance of a crackdown that is now seeing those arrested put on trial and facing the death penalty.

Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq's mighty river drying up


Monday, 31 October, 2022 , 01:44 AFP It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself.

Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq's mighty river drying up


Monday, 31 October, 2022 , 01:37 AFP It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself.

Iran protests swell, as Guards chief says stay home


Saturday, 29 October, 2022 , 17:29 AFP Students led the way Saturday in protests across Iran over Mahsa Amini's death, even as the commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guards told them: "Do not come to the streets."

Iran protests swell, as Guards chief says stay home


Saturday, 29 October, 2022 , 14:33 AFP Students led the way Saturday in protests across Iran over Mahsa Amini's death, even as the commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guards told them: "Do not come to the streets."

Iran protests swell, as Guards chief says stay home


Saturday, 29 October, 2022 , 13:32 AFP Protests over Mahsa Amini's death spread Saturday in universities across Iran, even as the commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guards told them: "Do not come to the streets".

After dark, Iran security forces take aim at protest buildings


Saturday, 29 October, 2022 , 10:06 AFP Iranian security forces targeted a hospital and a student dormitory overnight, a rights group said Saturday, as a protest movement that flared over Mahsa Amini's death entered a seventh week.

Australia repatriates 17 citizens from Syrian camps


Saturday, 29 October, 2022 , 05:40 AFP Four women and 13 children were repatriated to Australia on Saturday, having languished for years in squalid Syrian detention camps after the downfall of the Islamic State.

Australia repatriates 17 citizens from Syrian camps


Saturday, 29 October, 2022 , 02:34 AFP Four women and 13 children were repatriated to Australia on Saturday, having languished for years in squalid Syrian detention camps after the downfall of the Islamic State.

Iraq's new government unlikely to solve crises


Friday, 28 October, 2022 , 14:51 AFP Iraq's parliament has approved the government of Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani after more than a year of political paralysis, but the war-ravaged country is far from reaching safe shores.