Syrian government and Kurdish-led SDF announce latest ceasefire
The deal will see Kurdish-led SDF integrated into state forces
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What is Iran’s Revolutionary Guard? The force labelled a ‘terrorist group’ by the EU
The Guard rose out of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and has been pivotal in quashing recent protests across Iran
Syria, Kurdish-led SDF reach integration deal after weeks of clashes
Syria’s government and Kurdish-led forces struck a sweeping deal on Friday to integrate Kurdish fighters and their administration into the central state, after weeks of fighting that shrank Kurdish control across the country.
Why Iran is the wrong war for Trump to back
Trump may be very proud of his ‘armada’ off the coast of Iran but the US president could look good, back a winner, and support his allies by leaving Tehran alone and helping Ukraine win instead, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley
Live: Trump says he hopes to avoid military action against Iran
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he hoped to avoid military action against Iran, which has threatened to strike American bases and aircraft carriers in response to any attack. “I built (up) the military in my first term, and now we have a gr…
Live: Trump says he hopes to avoid military action against Iran
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he hoped to avoid military action against Iran, which has threatened to strike American bases and aircraft carriers in response to any attack. “I built (up) the military in my first term, and now we have a gr…
Trump-Iran latest: Iranian president backs nuclear talks – but only if they are ‘free from threats’
First meeting between US and Iran envoys since Tehran’s 12-day war with Israel expected on Friday
Huge portrait of girl killed in Gaza war unfurled on beach in Spain
Little Hind Rajab was trapped in a car for hours, begging Palestinian medics to send help while her aunt, uncle and three cousins lay dead
Warships and fighter jets: What is the ‘massive’ US armada on its way to Iran?
Tensions between Iran and the United States continued to ramp up as US President Donald Trump announced that a massive “armada” was heading toward the Persian Gulf. Led by the USS Abraham Lincoln, the presence of the fleet underscores increasingly bel…
Israeli military accepts that 71,000 Palestinians were killed in Gaza war for first time, says report
Tel Aviv has spent years dismissing the Gaza health ministry’s death toll as ‘misleading and unreliable’