Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said communication with supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of his predecessor Ali Khamenei, is “very difficult”, in an inte…
Islamabad seeks economic backing while balancing new defence commitments and a volatile regional security landscape.
At least 56 people have been executed in Iran on national security-related charges in the past five months, including 27 in cases linked to protests at the start of the year, UN h…
Min Aung Hlaing stressed that his government was focused on ending the civil war and restoring peace.
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has described the Israeli attacks in southern Syria as a major risk for the stability and sovereignty of the country, reiterating his calls on the int…
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli on Aug. 6, a day after a government-backed draft law aimed at supporting the dissolu…
US officials say they would not accept any arrangement on the waterway that would leave Iran in control.
Growing up, my mother and I often joked that I was a thirty-year-old in a ten-year-old’s skin. That happens when you’re an only child with a tendency toward bookishness—you spend …
During my tempestuous teenage years, I was attracted to the work of Sylvia Plath. I voraciously read her poems, as well as The Bell Jar and Paul Alexander’s 2003 biography, Rough …
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The newspaper 'Le Canard enchaîné' uncovered a video produced by the French embassy in Brazzaville that many social media users condemned as racist. Published in June and deleted …
Israel said on Aug. 6 that two reservists were killed in combat in southern Lebanon a day earlier, its first military fatalities there since June 28, while U.S.-backed negotiation…