Middle East

'We need a stabilised, democratic Syria: Economic recov...

François Picard is pleased to welcome Kurdish humanitarian activist Arya Jemo am...

'Khamenei is scared of Trump,' exiled Iranian activist ...

In an interview with FRANCE 24, Iranian women's rights activist and journalist M...

Victim of Iranian crackdown buried in hidden grave, fam...

Iranian official media on Wednesday said 3,117 people were killed during protest...

Camp housing djihadist relatives taken by Syrian army a...

Syrian government forces on January 21 took full control of the sprawling camp o...

Rifaat al&Assad, Syria’s ‘butcher of Hama’, dies at 88,...

Rifaat al-Assad, the uncle of deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad and infamous ...

Israeli strike kills three journalists in Gaza, civil d...

Three journalists were killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza on Wednesday, the Pal...

Syrian government forces advance in previously Kurd&hel...

Syrian government forces are continuing their advance in the country's northeast...

Denied mourning: The ordeal of the family of Robina Ami...

Robina Aminian, 23, is one of thousands of victims of the Iranian state's recent...

Syria : Did Washington "abandon" the Kurds?

Syria's government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces agreed a new cea...

Syrian army takes control of Al&Hol camp housing IS gro...

The Syrian army on Wednesday entered the Al-Hol dentention camp in northeastern ...

Syria, Kurdish&led SDF agree to ceasefire as US says IS...

Syria’s government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces agreed a new cea...

Why did the ceasefire fail in Syria and what about IS g...

A day after a sweeping deal was announced between the Syrian government and the ...

Will Trump's 'board of peace' in Gaza really rival the UN?

PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, January 20: Donald Trump's "board of peace" in Gaza aims...

Syrian govt says 120 Islamic State detainees escaped pr...

Syria's ⁠Interior Ministry said on Tuesday that about 120 Islamic State detainee...

Syrian government forces advance in northeast as Kurds ...

Syrian government forces on Tuesday made further gains in the northeastern regio...

Israel begins demolitions at UNRWA's East Jerusalem hea...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on Tue...

Trump’s Gaza 'Board of Peace': A covert bid to replace ...

Details remains murky regarding the "Board of Peace" on Gaza that US President D...

Iran crackdown: 'Can a government willing to kill its o...

William Hilderbrandt welcomes Dr. Ahu Kucuksefahani, Scholar in International Re...

Iran tells protesters who joined 'riots' to surrender w...

Iran's national police chief Ahmad-Reza Radan on Monday issued an ultimatum to y...

Hackers target Iran state TV's satellite transmission t...

Hackers disrupted Iranian state television satellite transmissions to air footag...

Syrian govt, Kurdish SDF trade accusations over ceasefi...

The Syrian government and the US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (S...

Iran protests: What we know about the varying death tolls

What is the death toll from the protests in Iran? Since the demonstrations broke...

IS group prisoners are 'big issue' for Syrian governmen...

A day after the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) agreed to quit large ...

Syria's government says it has struck ceasefire deal wi...

Damascus on Sunday announced a ceasefire deal with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democr...

Iran’s internet briefly restored amid widespread protes...

Limited internet access briefly returned in Iran before dropping again, a monito...

Shocking details of Iran's massacres filter through the...

PRESS REVIEW – Monday, January 19: New details emerge of the massacres in Iran, ...

Iran's regime cannot 'hold its power just through terro...

The leader of a group that aims to unite Iranian students amid the violence in t...

End of de&facto Kurdish autonomy as Damascus takes cont...

The Syrian government Sunday announced a ceasefire with the Syrian Democratic Fo...

Syrian government announces ceasefire with Kurdish forces

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Sunday announced a deal with the chief of Ku...

Syrian government says it has struck ceasefire deal wit...

Damascus on Sunday announced a ceasefire deal with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democr...

Syrian army advances in north amid Kurdish clashes, US ...

Syrian government forces advanced Sunday into areas of northern Syria previously...

Syria and Kurdish forces agree to ceasefire, President ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa announced a ceasefire agreement on Sunday with ...

Kurdish forces risk turning to 'guerrilla' warfare as S...

Kurdish-led forces withdrew from Syria's largest oil field on Sunday, according ...

'The goal is to destroy the Syrian Democratic Forces': ...

Joshua Landis, the director of the University of Oklahoma's Centre for Middle Ea...

'A lot of contradictory information': Syrian and Kurdis...

As the Syrian army and Kurdish-led forces trade accusations of breaking a troop ...

Syrian troops clash with Kurdish forces as both sides t...

At least four Syrian soldiers and an unknown number of Kurdish-led troops have b...

Trump taps former UK PM Tony Blair for Gaza 'board of p...

US President Donald Trump on Friday gave a key role in post-war Gaza to former B...

Syrian army enters northern towns after Kurdish fighter...

Syrian government forces entered two northern towns Saturday morning after the c...

Syrian forces enter Deir Hafer near Aleppo after Kurdis...

Syrian government forces on Saturday entered Deir Hafer, east of Aleppo, after K...

Rights group says thousands of protesters killed in Iran

Norway-based rights group Iran Human Rights (IHR) says 3,428 protesters have bee...

Iran protest movement subsides amid intense crackdown

Protests in Iran have subsided after a crackdown that has killed thousands under...

Kurdish granted national language status in Syria

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa issued a decree on Friday declaring Kurdish a "...

Marco Rubio, Tony Blair, Jared Kushner named to Trump’s...

US President Donald Trump on Friday unveiled the members of a “Board of Peace" t...

Syria's Sharaa declares Kurdish a 'national language' f...

Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Friday declared Kurdish one of the country'...

Iran: An uprising and a massacre, The Greenland narrati...

It’s been a week marked by brutality, brinkmanship and political theatre. In I...

Arrests reported by official media for first time since...

Friday marks the fifth day since the last demonstrations in Tehran, FRANCE 24 co...

'Victims of a slaughter: Iranian people have been risin...

Mark Owen welcomes Aida Tavakoli, co-founder of We Are Iranian Students, who off...

US claims Iran halts executions of protesters amid crac...

The United States on Thursday said Iran halted 800 executions of protesters unde...

Iranian women on the frontline of protests

This week, we focus on Iran as the country has been rocked by its largest wave o...

Civilians flee Kurdish&held region in northern Syria ah...

Civilians fled a Kurdish-held region of northern Syria on Friday before a deadli...