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Director Jonathan Millet contacted a secret cell that hunts down Assad’s collaborators while researching a new film. He soon realised that it could not be a documentary …

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation tells the story of Amin, an Iranian man whose life and family are shattered when the USS Vincennes shoots down an Iranian passenger plane in 1988.

At a Tehran cafe, Hamid waves his mobile around hoping to latch onto a faint signal and thus bypass Iran's stringent ban on the latest models of iPhone.

“Ghost Trail”, which opened the Critics’ Week sidebar in Cannes this week, follows a Syrian exile’s pursuit of the man who tortured him during the country’s civil war. FRANCE 24 spoke to French director Jonathan Millet, whose impressive Cannes debut delivered one of the festival’s early hits.

While sanctions fail to change Iran's policies, they inflict severe hardships on civilians and rally support for the regime.

Russian defence ministry maps show rapid pullbacks in key Kherson region amid Ukraine army’s counteroffensive.

Dabholkar, Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti founder and anti-superstition crusader, was shot dead while on a morning walk in Pune in August 2013.

A noisy backhoe digs up earth to uncover yet another mass grave in Iraq, human remains are exhumed and the forensics experts get to work on their grim task. A skull is freed from a layer of clay, a tibia is placed in a body bag -- all bound for…

The Posh Fish and Chip Shop Company appears on the BBC's Britain's Top Takaways, hosted by Sara Cox