TEHRAN - Iranian Kurds in the mountainous Uramanat region, which is a UNESCO World Heritage as well, gathered for the annual three-day Pir-e Shaliar festival, a centuries-old folk celebration honoring ...

"The meeting focused on enhancing relations between the Kurdistan Region and the Islamic Republic of Iran, as well as the broader political landscape in Iraq and the region, particularly Syria." 1 ...

Over the last two decades, developments in the Middle East have helped transform the Kurds’ struggle for greater ... despite government repression and Iran where signs of increased unrest ...

Two judges of Iran’s Supreme Court were shot dead and ... The assassinations came after the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Kurdish woman activist Pakhshan Azizi, inviting ...

“It’s something Kurdish women have been doing for decades as a form of resistance. This notion gradually came into the Iranian women-led movement.” ...

Just three days before US President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, Russia and Iran have finally signed a “comprehensive partnership agreement” – a deal that had been in the ...

United Nations human rights experts expressed serious concern on Tuesday regarding the Iranian Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the death sentence of Kurdish activist Pakhshan Azizi. Experts said ...

Israel supplied Iran with centrifuge platforms containing explosives for its nuclear enrichment programme, a top Iranian official has acknowledged for the first time, underscoring the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This photo released Nov. 5, 2019, by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, shows centrifuge machines in ...

Such wounds were commonplace in late 2022, when thousands took to the streets to protest the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman, for alleged violations of ...

2:19 Mahsa Amini death: Has Canada lived up to its promises to expel Iranian officials? Canada’s refugee board has rejected the federal government’s latest attempt to deport an alleged senior ...

The Syrian Kurds have long relied on a fragile power balance between the United States, Russia, Turkey, and Iran to retain their autonomous project in the northeast. But there’s now only a small ...