Turkey06-06-2026
The European Union (EU) Council on Monday announced sanctions against two Iranian individuals and a component of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy, which oversees operations in a southern province adjacent to the Strait of Hormuz, over involvement in disrupting shipping in the strategic waterway. Tehran downplayed the move as “political” and lacking legitimacy.
An Afghan government official killed a Kurdish woman and her 15-year-old daughter in northern Afghanistan, a Paris-based human rights monitor reported on Monday, adding that the motive for the crime was the woman’s refusal to marry off her daughter to the Taliban official.
