Tehran has threatened to treat an attack by the US as part of last summer’s war, and its response could be more dramatic. Read More | Source: BBC News…
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Syria’s Kurds sense US betrayal as government forces push them back
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Wounded demonstrators tell the BBC they are relying on medics willing to risk their own safety by treating them at their homes. Read More | Source: BBC News…
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Young Iranians able tell the BBC how they saw friends and other people die as security forces crushed protests earlier this month. Read More | Source: BBC News…
View More ‘We all know someone who was killed’ – Iran protesters tell BBC of brutal crackdown‘I saw people getting shot’: Eyewitness tells of Iran protest crackdown
An Iranian who got out of the country describes scenes of chaos as security forces opened fire in her home town. Read More | Source: BBC News…
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The retreat of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the north-east marks the biggest change of control in Syria since the fall of Bashar al-Assad. Read More | Source: BBC News…
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View More What next for Iran’s supreme leader?‘Now there’s the threat of executions’ in Iran
An Iranian security official says 2,000 people have been killed so far after a crackdown on weeks of anti-government protests. Read More | Source: BBC News…
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