She won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her two-decade fight for human rights in the Islamic republic and strongly backed the 2022-2023 protests sparked by the custody death of the ...

Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, had been detained for not wearing her headscarf properly while visiting Tehran in September 2022. She later died in police custody in hospital ...

The deal placed many Kurdish-inhabited areas under French control, while the British were slated to control the region east of Kirkuk. Additionally, the European powers planned on turning the ...

Kurdish leaders in Iraq and Syria are pledging to collaborate closely to advance Kurdish rights in Syria following the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime last month. In a rare meeting ...

Jail in NE Syria holds some 4,500 detainees, many foreigners Kurdish force: IS tried to attack jails twice since Assad fell Kurdish officer says sharing control of jail 'not acceptable' HASAKAH ...

The Iraqi parliament controversially passed three laws as a package on Tuesday: the amended personal status law, a general amnesty law, and the repeal of Ba'athist decisions on Kurdish land in ...

bombardment at a position near the Tishrin Dam in the vicinity of Manbij, in the east of Syria's northern Aleppo province, on January 10, 2025 amidst ongoing battles with the Kurdish-led Syrian ...

ANKARA, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he and Syria's newly appointed president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, had discussed in Ankara on Tuesday steps to be taken against Kurdish ...

The Kurdish forces guarding ISIS fighters at a jail in northern Syria say they are opposed to handing the facility to the new rulers in Damascus as they brace for attacks by the ultra-hardline ...

(Beirut) – Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch said today. “Iranian authorities are using the death ...

Syria’s new defence minister has said it would not be right for US-backed Kurdish fighters based in the country’s northeast to retain their own bloc within the broader integrated Syrian armed ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Renowned Kurdish comedian Juma Khalil, famously known as Bave Teyar, died on ...