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Protesters gather at Iranian prison in attempt to stop ‘imminent executions’

Tuesday 10-01-2023 03:31 PM

Protesters have gathered outside a prison near the Iranian capital in an attempt to prevent the rumoured imminent execution of two young detainees found guilty of running over a police officer in ...

UN extends critical aid from Turkey to Syria’s rebel north

Tuesday 10-01-2023 02:25 PM

The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Monday to keep a key border crossing from Turkey to Syria’s rebel-held northwest open for critical aid deliveries for another six months. Syria’s ally ...

Russia can fight from salt mines in Bakhmut, says Wagner boss

Monday 09-01-2023 08:25 PM

The head of the Wagner Group of pro-Kremlin mercenaries has said that Russia’s frenzied efforts to seize the town of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine are aimed at taking control of “underground cities” ...

Iran hangs two convicted of murder of Revolutionary Guard

Monday 09-01-2023 08:03 PM

Iran has hanged two men on the same day who had been accused of taking part in the protests that have swept the country. Mohammad Mahdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini were accused of ...

Bakhmut is holding on, says Zelensky as Russian missiles rain

Monday 09-01-2023 06:40 PM

Ukrainian forces have been repelling constant Russian attacks on Bakhmut and other towns in the eastern Donbas region, officials in Kyiv said today after denying Kremlin claims that 600 soldiers ...

UN gathering seeks aid for Pakistan after devastating floods

Monday 09-01-2023 06:30 PM

A United Nations conference on Monday drummed up funds and other support to help Pakistan cope with the fallout of last summer’s devastating flooding, which the U.N. chief called a “climate ...

Alabama woman who joined IS hopes to return from Syria camp

Monday 09-01-2023 04:59 PM

A woman who ran away from home in Alabama at the age of 20, joined the Islamic State group and had a child with one of its fighters says she still hopes to return to the United States, serve ...

Amid unrest, Iran’s hardliners turn their anger to France

Monday 09-01-2023 03:50 PM

Iranian hardliners on Sunday burned French flags outside the French embassy in Tehran, protesting cartoons published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that lampoon Iran’s ruling ...

Pope denounces Iran death penalty following protests

Monday 09-01-2023 03:05 PM

Pope Francis on Monday broke his silence on the nationwide protests convulsing Iran, denouncing the recourse to the death penalty there and seemingly legitimizing the rallies as demonstrations ...

Now Fighting for Ukraine: Volunteers Seeking Revenge Against Russia

Sunday 08-01-2023 01:59 PM

The sharp crack of sniper fire rang out across the snowbound valley. Soldiers in white camouflage crouched low, shooting at the hill opposite to provide cover as four men evacuated a casualty. ...

The Observer view on averting the west’s collision course with Iran

Sunday 08-01-2023 01:49 PM

A ceremony in Tehran last week marking the third anniversary of the assassination in Iraq by a US drone of Qassem Suleimani, a senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), ...

Pakistan frees 524 Afghan migrants from Karachi jail

Sunday 08-01-2023 01:34 PM

Hundreds of Afghan migrants, including women and children, have been released from a jail in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, Afghan authorities said Saturday. Pakistani police ...

Why Putin’s raw recruits are no match for Ukraine’s western tech

Sunday 08-01-2023 01:26 PM

At about midnight on New Year’s Eve a barrage of American-built Himars missiles smashed into a building packed with Russian conscripts in Makiivka, just outside Donetsk in occupied east Ukraine. ...

Pakistani police: Militants kill officer near Afghan border

Sunday 08-01-2023 01:10 PM

Militants opened fire on a security van killing a policeman Saturday in northwestern Pakistan, a region bordering Afghanistan where violence has spiked in recent months, local police said. A ...

UN envoy meets with Afghan higher-ed chief over ban on women

Sunday 08-01-2023 12:55 PM

A top U.N. envoy met with the Taliban-led Afghan government’s higher education minister Saturday to discuss the ban on women attending universities. Markus Potzel is the first international ...