A protester briefly replaced the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran on its London embassy with a former flag, flown before 1979, during a demonstration Saturday, witnesses told AFP. A video posted to social media showed a man on the balcony of the embassy, near Hyde Park,
Husam Maarouf kept writing during the war, even as death surrpunded him. Now his powerful poems come out in a Hebrew-Arabic collection
The Southern Transitional Council is an umbrella organization established in 2017 for groups that seek to restore southern Yemen as an independent state, and has received financial and military support from the UAE.
Clashes broke out earlier this week in predominantly Kurdish neighborhoods after the government and the Syrian Democratic Forces, the main Kurdish-led force, failed to make progress on how to merge troops into the national army. The fighting has displaced more than 140,000 and
Jan 10 - Egypt’s National Elections Authority declared the results on Saturday of the last 49 seats in a parliamentary election that began more than three months ago and gave President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi the super-majority he needs to amend the constitution. The results of
Aden airport was closed last week by the separatist Southern Transitional Council amid a worsening rift between the UAE and Saudi Arabia, which now support rival factions in the country's civil war. More than 600 stranded tourists were evacuated
Tehran escalated its threats against protesters on Saturday, with Iranian officials warning that demonstrators will be considered an 'enemy of God,' a death penalty charge against those 'betraying the nation and creating insecurity' or seeking 'foreign domination'
CAIRO, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Yemen's main separatist group, the Southern Transitional Council, denied on Saturday it was disbanding, according to a statement posted on X. The statement comes amid conflicting remarks by members on the UAE-backed group's fate, reflecting a feud
DUBAI, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The Iranian army said on Saturday it would safeguard strategic infrastructure and public property and urged Iranians to thwart "the enemy's plots", as the clerical establishment steps up efforts to quell the country's biggest protests in years. The
By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG, Jan 10 (Reuters) - China, Russia and Iran began a week of joint naval exercises in South Africa's waters on Saturday in what the host country described as a BRICS Plus operation to "ensure the safety of shipping and maritime economic activities".
Major Iranian cities were gripped overnight by new mass rallies denouncing the Islamic republic, as the son of the ousted shah urged protesters on Saturday to plan to seize city centres. The two weeks of protests have posed one of the biggest challenges to the theocratic
Major Iranian cities were gripped overnight by new mass rallies denouncing the Islamic republic, as activists on Saturday expressed fear authorities were intensifying their suppression of the demonstrations under cover of an internet blackout. The two weeks of protests have
Rights groups expressed alarm on Saturday that Iranian authorities were intensifying a deadly crackdown under cover of an internet blackout, after another night of mass protests in the biggest demonstrations to face the Islamic republic in years. The two weeks of demonstrations
JERUSALEM, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview published on Friday that he hopes to "taper off" Israeli dependence on American military aid in the next decade. Netanyahu has said Israel should not be reliant on foreign military aid
Jan 10 (Reuters) - The Syrian army said on Saturday that it had finished combing through Aleppo city's Sheikh Maksoud neighbourhood, signalling a takeover from Kurdish fighters. The Syrian army earlier said it would push into the last Kurdish-held district of Aleppo on Friday
The United States on Saturday urged the Syrian government and Kurdish authorities to return to negotiations after days of deadly clashes in the northern city of Aleppo. Conflicting reports emerged from the city, as authorities announced a halt to the fighting and said they
Syrian authorities on Saturday began transferring Kurdish fighters from the country's second city Aleppo to areas they control in the country's northeast, state television reported, after days of deadly clashes. The violence in Aleppo erupted after efforts to integrate the
Syria's army said it had completed a "security sweep" on Saturday of a neighbourhood in Aleppo where it clashed with Kurdish forces, though shelling could still be heard following calls for fighters to surrender themselves and their weapons. Government forces began striking the
The Syrian army said on Saturday that it was halting military operations in an Aleppo neighbourhood following days of clashes, but Kurdish forces there maintained they were still under attack, with an AFP correspondent nearby reporting sporadic gunfire. The violence in Syria's
Syria's army said it had completed a "security sweep" on Saturday of a neighbourhood in Aleppo where it clashed with Kurdish forces, who denied losing control of the area after defying calls to surrender. Government forces began striking the Sheikh Maqsud district overnight
Syria's army said its operation in a Kurdish neighbourhood of Aleppo was nearing completion early Saturday and urged fighters from the minority to surrender themselves and their weapons. Government forces began striking the Sheikh Maqsud district overnight after the Kurdish
By Steve Holland and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is treading carefully around the issue of mass protests in Iran amid some U.S. predictions that the unrest may not be widespread enough to challenge Tehran's clerical establishment.
President Trump attributed the scores of protester deaths to stampedes, even as videos show Iranian security forces are firing on protesters.
Iran's leadership is projecting defiance in the face of fast-spreading protests and US warnings. But behind the scenes, the cost-benefit calculus of repression appears more fraught than in past crises.
Since the Assad regime fell, the Kurds in Syria have been vying for control with al-Sharaa. Israel's entry into the fray could lead to conflict with Turkey and the U.S.
