Anti-war Russian reporter who protested live on TV flees house arrest

‘Dead Russian soldiers are good to see’: how war changed a volunteer fighter

Students defy Iran’s security forces with university protests

‘Russia is in trouble’: Ukraine forces make more advances in Kherson

Pakistan’s PM says rival Imran Khan is ‘biggest liar on earth’

Iran says it launched test ‘tug’ into suborbital space

Iran’s supreme leader breaks silence on protests, blames US

Iran protests: riot police clash with students at Sharif university

‘My teenage years were stolen’: Iranians on their hopes for change

Putin threat to go nuclear in Ukraine may not be a bluff, says US

‘Our torturers used Russia’s favourite toys: batons and cattle prods’

At 6am each day a bell sounded down the Bryansk prison corridors. It was the signal for the captured Ukrainian soldiers to get off their bunks and sing the Russian national anthem. Guards peered at ...

Circus school gives Afghan girls laughter in dark times

Dozens of happy girls juggling, balancing on wooden balls and performing acrobatics to jaunty music is an unexpected sight in today’s Afghanistan. Since the Taliban took over last August, girls over ...

We must go nuclear in Ukraine, Chechen warlord tells Putin

President Putin faces mounting pressure from Russian hardliners after his latest military setback, with the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov calling for the use of “low-yield” nuclear weapons. Ukraine ...

Iran says it is due $7bn for release of US-Iranian father and son

‘Tanks rule here. Putin’s draftees will be cannon fodder’