Tuesday, 13 January, 2026 , 07:46 AFP — The crackdown in Iran is targeting "defenceless" people who need the support of the international community to "put an end" to the current system, award-winning Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi said on Tuesday.

Monday, 12 January, 2026 , 18:58 AFP — Recent deadly clashes in Syria's Aleppo were an attempt by Kurdish fighters to sabotage Turkey's efforts to end a decades-long conflict with the Kurdish militant PKK group, Ankara's ruling party said Monday.

Monday, 12 January, 2026 , 18:35 AFP — Recent deadly clashes in Syria's Aleppo were an attempt by Kurdish fighters to sabotage Turkey's efforts to end a decades-long conflict with the Kurdish militant PKK, the ruling party said Monday.

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Monday, 12 January, 2026 , 17:01 AFP — Syrian rights groups on Monday urged an investigation into a video showing a man in military uniform throwing a female fighter's body from a building in Aleppo during recent clashes between government and Kurdish forces.

Monday, 12 January, 2026 , 10:44 AFP — Barham Salih has known torture and the wrenching loss of exile. Four decades after his own ordeal, he has taken the helm of the UN refugee agency as it grapples with a funding shortfall and ever-rising needs.

Sunday, 11 January, 2026 , 17:01 AFP — Syria's government was in full control of Aleppo on Sunday after taking over the city's Kurdish neighbourhoods and evacuating fighters there to Kurdish autonomous areas following days of deadly clashes.

Sunday, 11 January, 2026 , 16:26 AFP — Residents of a Kurdish neighbourhood in Syria's second city of Aleppo passed through government checkpoints Sunday to find blackened walls, destroyed vehicles and debris-littered streets as they returned home after days of deadly clashes.

Sunday, 11 January, 2026 , 13:48 AFP — Syria's government was in full control of Aleppo on Sunday after taking over the city's Kurdish neighbourhoods and evacuating fighters there to Kurdish autonomous areas following days of deadly clashes.

Sunday, 11 January, 2026 , 10:50 AFP — Syrian government forces evacuated more than 400 Kurdish fighters from the last district in Aleppo to fall to the army and detained 300 Kurds, an interior ministry official told AFP on Sunday.