The Iraqi government has announced that it plans to close Camp Ashraf, home to more than 3,000 Iranian dissidents by the end of the year. But the decision has put the international community in a difficult position.
In this edition: Iranian dissidents in Iraq clash with police trying to evict them from their camp; the annual Fatah congress will decide on talks with Hamas; and Saudi car lovers show off their wheels.
Clashes between Iraqi security forces and exiled Iranian opposition supporters at Camp Ashraf, the group's base camp in Iraq, occurred for a second day as the main Iranian resistance movement accused Baghdad of taking orders from Tehran.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran, which includes the People's Mujahedeen, denounced an Iraqi operation against a camp housing thousands of its supporters, suggesting Baghdad was in alliance with Iran's supreme guide Khamenei.
FRANCE 24 looks at the huge challenges awaiting US President Barack Obama's administration in Afghanistan, the EU takes an Iranian group off its terrorist blacklist and we ask: could Asia's longest-running ethnic conflict be over in Sri Lanka?
The EU has agreed to remove the People's Mujahideen of Iran, the country's main opposition group, from its list of terrorist organisations. The group and its allies have long accused the EU of keeping it blacklisted in an effort to appease Tehran.
People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran 
