The Islamic Republic has a history of targeting minority ethnic groups, especially the Kurds, when it feels threatened.

Many Kurdish villages and towns were destroyed ... Khomeini labeled them “mohareb,” or “warriors against God,” and criticized the Revolutionary Courts for not sentencing them to death sooner. This ...

Iranian Kurdish dissidents have been watching from abroad for signs that the government in Tehran might falter after the 12-day Israel-Iran war. IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — From abroad, Iranian Kurdish ...

Tensions have escalated between Iraq’s central government in Baghdad and the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the country’s north in a long-running dispute over the sharing of oil revenues ...

The Kurdish shift comes partly out of necessity. Turkish drones have battered the PKK in northern Iraq in recent years. The fall of the Assad regime in Syria left the SDF vulnerable to attacks by ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdish Arts and Culture Festival kicked off in Berlin on Friday, this year focused on the future of Kurds in Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The body of renowned Kurdish singer Ayse San was returned to her hometown of Diyarbakir (Amed) in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, nearly three decades after her death from ...

Fatwas in Shiʿa jurisprudence are typically non-binding legal opinions. However, within the institutional framework of the ...

Kurdish leaders in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq have been silent, however. “It’s a sensitive topic, of course,” explains the journalist.