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Canada to repatriate British-born 'Jihadi Jack' from Islamic State prison camp

Sunday 22-01-2023 05:12 PM

Canada will repatriate the British-born Isil member known as "Jihadi Jack" along with 22 other citizens held in Islamic State prison camps in north-east Syria. Muslim convert Jack Letts, 28, ...

Pakistan Strengthens Already Harsh Laws Against Blasphemy

Sunday 22-01-2023 04:24 PM

Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, which can already mean death for those deemed to have insulted Islam or the Prophet Muhammad, can now also be used to punish anyone convicted of insulting people who ...

Iran to rule on release of film-maker Jafar Panahi

Sunday 22-01-2023 04:03 PM

Iran’s judiciary is to rule on whether to release the film-maker Jafar Panahi on bail after his conviction was overturned by the supreme court, his lawyer said. Panahi, 62, who has won a ...

Relentless Emirati efforts to restore security and stability to Syria

Sunday 22-01-2023 03:22 PM

Emirati Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed went on Wednesday, January 4, to the Syrian capital, Damascus, on his second visit, where he met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and they ...

Intense international movement on impact of Libyan crisis: Is consensus coming soon?

Sunday 22-01-2023 03:08 PM

An intense international movement has been taking place in the Libyan arena, especially after the recent agreement announced by the heads of the House of Representatives and the High Council of ...

European Support Grows for Sanctioning Iran’s Revolutionary Guards

Friday 20-01-2023 01:36 PM

The European Parliament on Thursday urged member states to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, in a sign of growing support for new measures against Tehran ...

Putin’s Russian cyberattacks could target UK’s infrastructure

Thursday 19-01-2023 03:23 PM

President Putin is tasking his army of hackers with targeting British critical infrastructure, deploying tactics tested in Ukraine, defence sources have warned. Kyiv has been hit by waves of ...

Netanyahu told by Israel’s supreme court he must fire key ally from cabinet

Thursday 19-01-2023 02:48 PM

Israel’s supreme court has ruled that the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, must fire a key ally from the country’s new cabinet, presenting the Israeli leader with a potential coalition crisis ...

Iran is spinning out of control, just like the last days of the Shah

Thursday 19-01-2023 01:04 PM

The last days of the Shah of Iran have become a cautionary tale. The absolute ruler of Iran, who had the best equipped army in the Islamic Middle East, extreme oil wealth, and the backing of the ...

UN: Al-Qaida and Islamic State driving insecurity in Mali

Wednesday 18-01-2023 04:45 PM

Al-Qaida and Islamic State extremist groups are driving insecurity in central Mali and continue to clash near populated areas in the northern Gao and Menaka regions, the U.N. chief said in a new ...

Senior Iranian ex-diplomats expressing open criticism of regime

Wednesday 18-01-2023 04:30 PM

Senior former Iranian diplomats are expressing open criticism of their government, warning that by failing to revive the nuclear deal and supplying drones to Russia in Ukraine, the country risks ...

Iranian-American Prisoner in Tehran Starts Hunger Strike

Wednesday 18-01-2023 03:54 PM

The longest-held American prisoner in Iran began what he said would be a weeklong hunger strike on Monday to demand his immediate release, appealing directly to President Biden to negotiate ...

Zelensky adviser quits after claim Ukraine shot down missile that hit flats

Wednesday 18-01-2023 03:41 PM

A high-profile Ukrainian presidential adviser has resigned after he sparked fury by saying that a Russian missile that killed dozens of people was deflected on to a block of flats by Ukraine’s air ...

Turkey seeks to reassure allies on Nato enlargement

Tuesday 17-01-2023 04:44 PM

Turkey has called on Sweden and Finland to do more to settle a dispute over the Nordic pair’s bid to join Nato and said expansion of the military alliance was vital to stability in its own ...

UK weighs designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organisation

Tuesday 17-01-2023 04:37 PM

Foreign secretary James Cleverly says Tehran will be ‘held to account’ after execution of Iranian-British man UK foreign secretary James Cleverly on Monday warned the Iranian government it ...