The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Iran has reportedly executed some 909 prisoners in 2024, with Kurds making up 20 percent of the total, a human rights ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Amnesty International on Monday called on Iran to “immediately” release Kurdish humanitarian aid ...

Responding to reports that Iran’s Supreme Court rejected the request for judicial review of the conviction and death sentence ...

Responding to reports that Iran’s Supreme Court rejected the request for judicial review of the conviction and death sentence ...

Charges such as “colluding against national security” and “propaganda against the regime” have now been cleared by the pardon ...

Syria is fractured by competing armies but who holds power and where may be shifting as the US eyes an exit.

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Iran executed 853 people in 2003 and 930 last year, the most in a decade, sending a chilling message to dissidents in the ...

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