A senior police officer was shot dead on Friday outside his home in Kirkuk after gunmen opened fire on him from a vehicle, Iraq’s interior ministry announced, saying the killing was carried out by two fellow officers over personal disputes.

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, a prominent women’s rights advocate and journalist, was arrested on Friday while attending a memorial for a human rights lawyer, according to her supporters.

The UK on Friday imposed sanctions on several individuals and organizations accused of committing violence against Syrian civilians during the civil war and in sectarian violence along Syria’s coast earlier this year.