The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Amnesty International on Monday called on Iran to “immediately” release Kurdish humanitarian aid ...

Charges such as “colluding against national security” and “propaganda against the regime” have now been cleared by the pardon ...

Iran’s Supreme Court has rejected Pakhshan Azizi’s request for a retrial, placing the Kurdish humanitarian worker at imminent ...

Responding to reports that Iran’s Supreme Court rejected the request for judicial review of the conviction and death sentence ...

Responding to reports that Iran’s Supreme Court rejected the request for judicial review of the conviction and death sentence ...

Amid historical changes in the balance of power in the Middle East, at least one thing remains constant: the strategic ...

(Beirut) – Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch said today. “Iranian authorities are using the death ...

On February 2, a drone targeted the Khor Mor gas field in the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Dana Gas, which runs the ...

Iran executed 853 people in 2003 and 930 last year, the most in a decade, sending a chilling message to dissidents in the country and prompting United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk to urge ...