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Protests broke out in western Iran on Saturday at the funeral of a young woman who died after being detained by morality police enforcing s...

Lebanese depositors, including one armed with a hunting rifle, broke into at least four banks Friday to demand their trapped savings, a sig...

A majority of World Cup fans support FIFA compensating migrant workers for rights abuses during preparations for the 2022 tournament in Qat...

Two seemingly armed and desperate Lebanese depositors held up banks on Wednesday to force access to their own money, which has been blocked...

Lebanon is drawing up a controversial plan to deport thousands of Syrian refugees every month. The country is in the midst of an economic m...

France has rejected an asylum request by a prominent Syrian journalist who contributed to numerous international publications and helped do...

Israeli authorities are pushing to impose new restrictions on foreigners who wish to visit or live in the West Bank. Human rights groups sa...

Ten months after the October 2021 parliamentary elections, Iraq is still mired in a political impasse that turned deadly Monday after Moqta...

Fighting between rival Iraqi forces raged for a second day Tuesday as the death toll from violence sparked by Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’...

Iraq's powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Monday he was quitting politics and closing his institutions in response to an intrac...

Rival factions battled across Libya's capital on Saturday in the worst fighting there for two years as an eyewitness said forces aligned wi...

U.S. military airstrikes in eastern Syria were to send a message to Iran and Tehran-backed militias that targeted American troops this mont...

The U.S. military said early Wednesday it carried out airstrikes in eastern Syria that targeted areas used by militias backed by Iran's par...

Iraq's judiciary suspended work on August 23 after supporters of powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr camped out near its headquarters to...

Qatar has deported migrant workers for staging a rare protest against unpaid wages less than three months before the football World Cup, a...

Eight more grain silos at Beirut port toppled Tuesday, succumbing to damage from a devastating 2020 explosion in the third such collapse in...

Israel and Turkey will restore full diplomatic ties and will re-appoint respective ambassadors, said Turkish and Israeli officials on Wedne...

Iran responded to the European Union's "final" draft text to save a 2015 nuclear deal on Monday, an EU official said, as the Iranian foreig...

Since coming to power in Afghanistan one year ago, the Taliban has announced a ban on growing and selling opium, leaving growers frustrated...

August 15 marks one year since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. Since then the economy has spiralled into decline and families are...

Majority-Shiite Iraq has been paralysed by political gridlock for nearly a year. Tensions are mounting between two powerful Shiite factions...

The 15th of August marks the one-year anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. FRANCE 24 has been talking to refugees who...

The 15th of August will mark the one-year anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. FRANCE 24 has been talking to refugees who...

Israeli police said Sunday they had arrested a suspect in a shooting attack on a bus in Jerusalem's Old City that wounded eight people, two...

Opponents of populist Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr launched their own Baghdad sit-in Friday two weeks after Sadr supporters stormed parliamen...