Parts of Iran now resemble combat zones, with flares lighting up the sky, gunfire booming out, and deadly incidents captured on film, over a month after the commencement of widespread protests. One protester sent a message from Sanandaj, a city in western Iran with a significant Kurdish population where, despite an almost complete internet blackout there, some of the rallies’ most dramatic photos... 

Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s uncompromising stance on a potential invasion of Greece has reignited tensions in the Aegean Sea, prompting questions about Turkey’s membership in NATO. Erdogan asserted that Turkey would strike against anyone interfering with its objectives in the region, leaving many to wonder why a nation with imperialistic tendencies and perceived as a terrorist threat, similar... 

Iran’s exiled queen Farah Pahlavi has once again called on military forces not to allow the Islamic Republic’s authorities to use them as “tools of repression.” In an audio message on her twitter account on Wednesday, Pahlavi addressed police forces, the army, the Revolutionary Guard, paramilitary Basij forces and plainclothes agents to imagine their own sisters, brothers, fathers and mothers... 

Amid widespread anti-government protests, Iran is facing a slow collapse of the ruling Islamic Republic regime, according to Iranian expert Dr Roham Alvandi. The demonstrations, triggered by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in morality police custody, pose a significant challenge to Iran’s clerical leaders. Unlike previous protests, the current unrest involves unarmed young people standing... 

Russian troops have been deployed near the border with Georgia today even as the Kremlin tries to stamp out rumors that Putin is about to introduce martial law and ban people from leaving in order to avoid being conscripted into the army. Many are fleeing to Finland as well, about 17,000 already fled to Finland. Russia is getting empty… its citizens are fleeing. Soon there will be only Putin... 

Iran’s president has called for a ‘decisive’ crackdown on the mass protests that have sent the Islamic theocracy reeling over the past week after the death in custody of a woman detained by the Islamic Republic’s morality police. The call for harsh measures come as the country’s ayatollahs scramble to get to grips with violent countrywide demonstrations that have seen... 

Turkey’s dictatorship is still keen to join the bloc, but President Erdogan’s remarks about direct flights from Russia to Northern Cyprus will concern many in Brussels. Turkey is still keen to join the European Union, the country’s Deputy Foreign Minister has said, pointedly telling the bloc: “You need us”. Meanwhile Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has hinted at the possibility... 

In spite of the government’s attempt to quell discontent with an internet blackout, protests are raging across the country, and the father of an Iranian lady who died in police detention last week has accused officials of lying about her death. Doctors wouldn’t allow Amjad Amini visit his daughter after she passed away, according to Amjad Amini, whose daughter Mahsa passed away following... 

In the footage, a sizable audience applauds as a lady raises a pair of scissors to her hair while showing no sign of wearing a headscarf. She chops off her ponytail and raises her fist in the air as the sea of people, many of whom are guys, yell. It was a potent display of defiance on Tuesday night in Kerman, Iran, where women are required to cover their heads in public. It was just one of numerous... 

Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) has claimed responsibility for Monday’s suicide bombing in Kabul. The blast occurred not far from the entrance to the Russian embassy in the Afghan capital and killed 25 people, including two embassy staff members. The terrorist group claimed that the attack was carried out by a foreign fighter. According to some reports, the attack was launched by a local Islamic... 

Seven-month-old Samera has dark, saucer-shaped eyes that look out while a nurse lovingly cradles her head and cleans her terribly frail body. She is one of the countless innocent people suffering from the effects of severe acute malnutrition, one of the leading causes of death in children under the age of five, as a result of the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan. Temor, her 12-year-old brother,... 

The anticipated closure of The Jewish Agency in Russia will have a serious impact on Russia-Israel relations, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid warned on Sunday. The quasi-governmental organization, which promotes the emigration of people with Jewish heritage to Israel, has been targeted by Russia’s Justice ministry over alleged violations of local law. “Prime Minister Lapid said in the meeting... 

Not long after President Joe Biden departed Tel Aviv in Air Force One on Friday, becoming the first American president to fly straight from the Jewish state to Saudi Arabia after the kingdom opened its airspace to Israeli air traffic, the Israeli military began pounding Gaza. “Hours after President Joe Biden ended a three-day visit to the region, Israel’s military said Saturday that it had attacked... 

The so-called “leader of the Free World” — U.S. President Joe Biden — showed he still understands who his real boss is when he “spontaneously” broke protocol and knelt in front of two Jewish “survivors” of the so-called “Holocaust” during his trip to Israel: Joe Biden dispensed with both social distancing and the chair arranged for him Wednesday as he embraced two Holocaust survivors,... 

Cooperation between Iran and Russia in the modern technologies sector predates the Ukrainian crisis, according to Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani. The Foreign Ministry spokesman made his remarks Tuesday in response to claims by U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan about Iran’s sale of modern technical breakthroughs to Russia. U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan...