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PKK withdrawal ends first peace process phase: Turkey's DEM
AFP, Published on 27/10/2025
» ANKARA - Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM party on Monday hailed the withdrawal of PKK fighters from Turkish soil as a "critical" step that completed the first phase of Ankara's peace process with the Kurdish militants.
Kurdish PKK says withdrawing all forces from Turkey to north Iraq
AFP, Published on 26/10/2025
» QANDIL MOUTAINS (IRAQ) - The Kurdish militant PKK said Sunday it was withdrawing all its forces from Turkey to northern Iraq, urging Ankara to take legal steps to protect the peace process.
Iran executes seven over killings of security forces, cleric
Reuters, Published on 04/10/2025
» DUBAI — Iran on Saturday executed seven men convicted of killing security personnel and a cleric several years ago, the judiciary’s news agency Mizan reported.
New clashes rock Syria’s Druze heartland
AFP, Published on 18/07/2025
» WALGHA, Syria - Armed tribes supported by Syria’s Islamist-led government clashed with Druze fighters in the community’s Sweida heartland on Friday, a day after the army withdrew under Israeli bombardment and diplomatic pressure.
Kurdish PKK fighters to begin disarming at key ceremony
AFP, Published on 11/07/2025
» SULAIMANIYAH (IRAQ) - PKK fighters were to begin laying down their weapons at a ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan Friday, two months after the Kurdish rebels ended their decades-long armed struggle against the Turkish state.
Syria's wheat war: drought fuels food crisis for 16 million
AFP, Published on 27/06/2025
» DAMASCUS - Rival Syrian and Kurdish producers are scrambling for shrinking wheat harvests as the worst drought in decades follows a devastating war, pushing more than 16 million people toward food insecurity.
At least 20 killed in suicide attack on Damascus church
AFP, Published on 23/06/2025
» DAMASCUS - At least 20 people were killed Sunday in a suicide attack on a church in Damascus, authorities said, with Syria's interior ministry blaming a member of the Islamic State group.
If Iran's Khamenei falls, what would replace him?
AFP, Published on 19/06/2025
» PARIS - Israel increasingly appears eager to oust the clerical leadership that has ruled Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution but is taking a gamble given the Iranian opposition is divided and there is no guarantee new rulers would be any less hardline, analysts say.
Fighter jets, refuelling aircraft, frigate: UK assets in Mideast
AFP, Published on 16/06/2025
» LONDON - Britain is deploying extra fighter jets and other assets to the Middle East amid the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said.
Syria hails US lifting of Assad-era sanctions
AFP, Published on 25/05/2025
» DAMASCUS - Syrian authorities on Saturday announced an interior ministry restructuring that includes fighting cross-border drug and people smuggling as they seek to improve ties with Western nations that have lifted sanctions.