The perpetrator, a Russian national born in 1978, recruited by the Ukrainian security services in Ukraine, and his four Russian accomplices have been detained.

…“In Turkey , these are historically determined, very strong faultlines,” he said. “And Erdoğan is good at using them.”…

In a Syria hospital crowded with women and wailing children, Ahmad al-Mohammad writhed in pain beside his wife after they contracted cholera.

…“Hostile groups have committed these crimes,” Azadi told Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards….

…Since Iran’s hardliners have tightened their grip on power and intensified their crackdown on women’s clothing over the past year, more women are experiencing Vozara….

The number of cholera cases in Syria continues to rise daily.

Videos and photos circulating on social media show intensive logging in the forests of Maydanki and Sharan in Afrin in the northern countryside of Aleppo and Ariha in Idlib as activists accuse members of the opposition-affiliated Sultan Murad Division of cutting down the trees in northwest Syria.

Pakistan has witnessed catastrophic flooding over the past few weeks that affected over 33 million people — some 15% of the nation’s population — and submerged a third of the country.

Syria supports Russia’s efforts to establish peace in Donbass, Damascus’ position on all international issues is identical to Russia’s, Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad told TASS on Tuesday.

… Venezuela n intelligence services worked with the president Nicolás Maduro to target and torture perceived enemies, according to a UN report published on Tuesday. The report…