Iencountered patriarchy and male dominance presiding over women and life, all in conjunction with the occupation of my ...

An internal Kurdish power feud has triggered mass arrests, alleged executions, and the unresolved detention of an American veteran amid rising Iranian influence.

TEHRAN – Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler says Iran dealt a heavy blow to the Kurdish militant group Kurdistan Workers' ...

Iran has that Iranian dissident groups are present in the Kurdistan region. TheKurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) interior ministry on Friday pointed the finger at Iranian-backed militias in Iraq ...

Iranians celebrate the ceasefire in downtown Tehran, but many blame their own leaders for the escalation. Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images The 12-day confrontation between Iran and Israel ...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — The main drag in Diyarbakir, Turkey's largest Kurdish city, is – in a word – alive. Vendors slice open bright pink watermelons. An elderly man stirs a pot of sherbet, a sweet, ...

The conflict between Iraq's Federal Government (FGI) and the Kurdistan Region (KRI) centers on political sovereignty. Tensions escalated after Baghdad blocked independent Kurdish oil sales in March ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A group of 30 Kurdish fighters clad in camouflage fatigues burned their weapons in a large cauldron in northern Iraq on Friday, in a symbolic gesture marking the first concrete ...

In a quiet but historic turn, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party announced its official dissolution during its 12th Congress in May 2025. After more than four decades of armed conflict with the Turkish ...

Members of Iraq’s Badr militia. (Iranian Qods International News Agency ) The Qatari New Arab reported on July 17 that Esmail Ghaani, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards-Quds Force (IRGC ...