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Continued ground and air strikes by Turkey and Ankara-backed rebel forces has angered Washington and led to calls for a united front against Daesh. (AFP)

April 26th, 2017 - 07:00 GMT

20 dead as Turkish warplanes target Kurdish fighters in Syria

More than two dozen fighters died in the attacks, which appear to have hit Kurdish units fighting Daesh.

Security personnel and residents walk at the site of a car bomb blast that targeted the CARE International compound at Share Naw in Kabul. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)

April 14th, 2017 - 09:00 GMT

International conference on Afghanistan to be held without US

Syrian men walk in a cemetery in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus, on Jan 9, 2017. (AFP/File)

January 22nd, 2017 - 11:36 GMT

US declines to send delegation to Syria peace talks in Astana

Islamic Republic's President Hassan Rouhani (AFP/File)

October 19th, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

Dual citizens father and son jailed for 10 years in Iran for ‘spying’ for US

A file image released by the US Navy shows a guided-missile destroyer USS Mason (DDG 87) conducting formation exercises with the Cyclone-class patrol crafts USS Tempest (PC 2) and USS Squall (PC 7) on September 10, 2016. (AFP/Navy Visual News Service)

October 16th, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

Houthis strike US Navy ship off the coast of Yemen

Israeli construction cranes and excavators at a building site in the Israeli settlement of Neve Yaakov, in the northern area of east Jerusalem on March 29, 2016. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

October 8th, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

Both US and EU condemn Israel’s latest plan for the expansion of illegal settlements

A picture taken on October 2, 2016 shows a general view of an Israeli building site of new housing units in the Jewish settlement of Shilo in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

October 6th, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

US at odds with Israel over new illegal settlements after granting massive military package

Russian president Vladimir Putin. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)

October 1st, 2016 - 08:21 GMT

Russia accused of killing 10,000 people in Syria

Fethullah Gulen, the US-based Muslim preacher, is blamed for orchestrating the attempted Turkish coup. (AFP/File)

August 24th, 2016 - 11:00 GMT

US considers Turkey request for Gulen extradition

Iranian soldiers from the Revolutionary Guards march during a military parade last month in Tehran. (AFP/File)

August 18th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Confirmed: Russian warplanes using bases in Iran for strikes on Syria

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Turkey and Iran would "offer the solution to the crisis in Syria." (AFP/File)

August 17th, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

After normalizing relations with Russia, Turkey looks to Iran to solve Syria crisis

Aleppo in Northern Syria has been the scene of fierce fighting in recent months between anti-Assad rebels and the Syrian Regime.

July 21st, 2016 - 07:58 GMT

US-backed Syrian rebels behead 12 year old Palestinian boy in Aleppo

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has introduced changes to the foreign ministry, including appointing Jaberi ansari as the new deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs. (AFP/File)

June 21st, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

Iran’s Zarif reshuffles foreign ministry, appoints new deputy foreign minister