Six Kurdish opposition parties in Iran on Thursday jointly decided to boycott the upcoming Presidential election in the country, claiming it was an unjust election. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region ...

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The United States on Tuesday called on Iran to overturn the death sentence of Kurdish woman Pakhshan Azizi and to stop targeting Kurds after she was sentenced for ...

EBRIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish music took center stage in Erbil on Thursday at a concert featuring performances from ...

Independent UN human rights experts on Tuesday expressed grave concern over the Iranian Supreme Court's decision to uphold the death sentence of Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish woman activist and social ...

The Kurdish National Front called on the Iranian authorities to reverse the death sentence issued against the Kurdish activist, Bakhshan Azizi, stressing that these decisions contribute to deepening ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) – Kurdish political parties in all parts of Kurdistan on Sunday gathered in support of the Kurdistan Democratic Party-Iran (KDP) following a twin bomb attack at ...

Tataloo was not the first popular singer to fall foul of the authorities in conservative Iran. In December, 34-year-old rapper Toomaj Salehi was released from prison after being arrested in October ...

Iran has reportedly agreed to supply 1,500 suicide drones to the Kurdish YPG/PKK group in Syria to counter Turkey’s military operations, a journalist of conservative Turkish newspaper Yeni ...

On February 1, the festival hosted a contemporary Iranian music symposium and performance with distinguished composer Reza Vali, Mehr reported. Vali, 74, began his music studies at the Conservatory of ...

The music of Iranian composer Emanuel Melik Aslanian will be performed by one of his former students at a free concert at the Rancho Bernardo Library. Homa Massih Yazdani, who has lived in Rancho ...

Mehrdad Soltani is not a name; he is a movement that has happened to the Iranian music fraternity. A vocalist and composer, born on April 14, 1982, in Tehran, Mehrdad has spent decades redefining the ...