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JAHROM CAMP, Iran, May 28 (UNHCR) - They were expelled from Iraq nearly 30 years ago, accused of not being Iraqi. After decades of exile in Iran, it seems like thousands of Feili Kurds now have a ...
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian held "constructive" meetings on Thursday with Kurdish officials in northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region on his first official trip abroad since taking ...
Kurdish groups in Iran have called for an uprising against the Iranian regime. Many of these groups have fought the regime for decades. They have faced persecution and oppression. There are a number ...
If you can’t point to Kurdistan on a map, you’re not alone: It’s not a sovereign country. But for Kurds, an ethnic group of roughly 30 million people, it is very real indeed. Nestled on the margins of ...
Ebrahim Raisi’s sudden death last weekend renewed attention to the Iranian succession question. While Raisi was the frontrunner to succeed eighty-five-year-old Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, all ...
General Matthew B. Ridgway flew to Turkey to inspect the easternmost outpost of his NATO command. He conferred with the U.S. military mission in Ankara, inspected units of the tough, well-trained ...
The head of a dissident Iranian Kurdish movement has told Newsweek his group is urging the United States to foster contacts with opposition factions in the Islamic Republic to undermine and ultimately ...
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), an independent and non-profit organization dedicated to education, awareness and documentation of human rights violations in Kurdistan/Iran, released their ...
The Kurdish question has played a complicated role in relations between Iran and Turkey. After the emergence of modern states, Iran and Turkey were mostly preoccupied with security issues, which ...