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Tens of thousands of Turkish citizens protested nationwide after authorities detained Ekrem Imamoglu, Istanbul’s mayor and a major rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the upcoming presidential election. Riot police immediately deployed tear gas after...
On March 11, 2025, the Balochistan Liberation Army attacked a passenger train called the Jafar Express. According to security officials, the train passed through a tunnel while the attackers blew up the railroad track. At the...
On February 12, Amir Mohammad Khaleghi, a 19-year-old student at the University of Tehran, was making his way back to the university’s dormitory when he was confronted by a duo of cyclist thieves, making for a...
Various Syrian sanctions have been suspended by the European Union including banking, transport, energy, and reconstruction. This removal took effect on Monday, February 24th. This happened after European heads of state began to rethink how they...
In recent weeks a rumor has been circulating around social platforms and state media about Iran’s plans for changing its capital from Tehran to the southern region of Makran in Sistan and Baluchistan province in close...
On January 1, 2025, Syria’s education ministry posted an official list of amendments to the education system on Facebook. These changes would affect first to twelfth-grade schoolbooks in all Syrian schools, implementing a focus on history,...
In a very surprising turn of events, the 54-year reign of the al-Assad regime in Syria has come to an end seemingly overnight. On December 8, Bashar al-Assad has fled the nation and sought refuge in...
Syria is a republic ruled by authoritarian leader Bashar al-Assad. Located in the Middle East–a shatterbelt region consisting of countries in West Asia and Northern Africa–where tensions are boiling among different countries. In the midst of...
The Assad family’s reign over Syria, which spanned more than five decades, came to a dramatic conclusion on December 8, 2024. The political landscape in Syria saw a tectonic shift as President Bashar al-Assad, one of...
Days after Assad’s government was overthrown Israel invaded Syria in a surprise move to occupy the U.N. administered buffer zone between Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and Syria. Most of the Golan Heights region has been occupied by...
