Thursday, 12 February, 2026 , 10:51 AFP — Most foreign families have left northeast Syria's Al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of Islamic State group fighters, since the departure of Kurdish forces who previously guarded it, humanitarian sources told AFP on Thursday.

Thursday, 12 February, 2026 , 10:23 AFP — Most foreign families have fled northeast Syria's Al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected Islamic State group fighters, since the departure of Kurdish forces who previously guarded it, humanitarian sources said Thursday.

Wednesday, 11 February, 2026 , 20:59 AFP — US forces have withdrawn to Jordan from Syria's Al-Tanf base, where they had been deployed as part of the international coalition against the Islamic State group, two Syrian military sources told AFP on Wednesday.

Wednesday, 11 February, 2026 , 17:49 AFP — Hundreds of foreigners were among the Islamic State group detainees transferred in recent weeks by the US military from Syria to Iraq, an Iraqi security official told AFP on Wednesday.

Tuesday, 10 February, 2026 , 09:54 AFP — More than 4,500 suspected jihadists have been transferred from Syria to Iraq as part of a US operation to relocate Islamic State group detainees, an Iraqi official told AFP on Tuesday.

Sunday, 8 February, 2026 , 19:38 AFP — Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi is in "deteriorating health" after ending a nearly week-long hunger strike, her supporters said Sunday, as authorities handed the campaigner a fresh prison sentence.

Saturday, 7 February, 2026 , 16:00 AFP — Iraq has so far received 2,225 Islamic State group detainees, whom the US military began transferring from Syria last month, an Iraqi official told AFP on Saturday.

Saturday, 7 February, 2026 , 14:16 AFP — Iranian authorities have arrested 11 members of an outlawed Kurdish group on suspicion of committing acts of sabotage, state television said on Saturday.

Friday, 6 February, 2026 , 23:04 AFP — France's financial crimes prosecutors told AFP Friday they had opened a preliminary investigation into influential former minister Jack Lang and his daughter Caroline after revelations in the Epstein files.

Friday, 6 February, 2026 , 20:36 AFP — France's foreign minister said Friday he had summoned former minister Jack Lang to a weekend meeting, as calls mounted for Lang to resign as head of a leading French cultural institute over his ties to convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.