Tuesday, 12 July, 2022 , 15:36 AFP — A man US officials called the leader of the Islamic State militant group in Syria was killed Tuesday in a drone strike, the Pentagon said.

Tuesday, 12 July, 2022 , 02:55 AFP — Iraqi Kurd Haresh Talib says he struggles to get paid and his children's schooling is disrupted in his conflict-riddled country, so he wants to try to flee with his family to Europe -- again.

Saturday, 9 July, 2022 , 16:30 AFP — Germany's lower house of parliament on Thursday recommended that German lawmakers recognise as a "genocide" the 2014 massacre of Kurdish-speaking Yazidis by Islamic State group jihadists in Iraq, following the lead of UN investigators.

Saturday, 9 July, 2022 , 09:06 AFP — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Saturday took part in Eid al-Adha prayers on the second day of his first visit to ex-rebel-stronghold Aleppo in over a decade, state media reported.

Friday, 8 July, 2022 , 20:00 AFP — Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Friday visited the former rebel bastion of Aleppo, including its historic Old City, for the first time since war broke out 11 years ago.

Friday, 8 July, 2022 , 15:01 AFP — Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Friday visited the heavily damaged northern province of Aleppo -- his first in 11 years of war.

Thursday, 7 July, 2022 , 18:32 AFP — German lawmakers on Thursday recognised the 2014 massacre of Kurdish-speaking Yazidis by Islamic State group jihadists in Iraq's northwest as a "genocide", following the lead of UN investigators.

Wednesday, 6 July, 2022 , 20:28 AFP — Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region Wednesday deplored "unjust pressure" from the federal government's oil ministry, days after the judiciary nullified oil contracts between the Kurds and foreign oil firms.

Wednesday, 6 July, 2022 , 15:21 AFP — Sweden's Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson on Wednesday condemned a group of left-wing MPs who posed with flags from Kurdish militants as the country's NATO membership bid faces Turkish pressure over such groups.

Wednesday, 6 July, 2022 , 10:13 AFP — Britain's new finance minister, Iraqi-born Nadhim Zahawi, has inherited a cost-of-living crisis that risks pushing the UK economy into recession.