Iraq’s National Security Council has formally banned all political, media, and social activities of Iranian opposition ...

A Kurdish teacher in Iran’s Kurdistan province was jailed on Saturday after being sentenced to five years in prison for ...

If the mainly Kurdish provinces of the southeast were to become independent, their state would be landlocked and weak in a highly volatile region—a tempting target for powers such as Iran ...

(credit: REUTERS/STRINGER IRAN) “We see this historic step as a long-awaited ... Barzani added, “We had already begun the process of recognizing it as the fourth province in the Kurdistan Region.” The ...

Thousands of Kurds were ousted from Kirkuk by former President Saddam Hussein, who regarded Kurds as pro-Iran during the Iraq ... and Sulaimaniya provinces. Over the year, however, Kurdish ...

Iranian Kurdish man Reza (Gholamreza) Rasaei is at risk of execution in relation to the September to December 2022 nationwide protests in Iran. Following a grossly unfair trial, on 7 October 2023, ...

Protests in Iran are continuing despite a harsh crackdown by security ... BBC World Affairs correspondent Jiyar Gol says much of the violence is concentrated in the Kurdish heavy northwest provinces, ...