(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has welcomed the release on 1 October 2006 of writer and human rights advocate Mohammed Ghanem, who was arrested on 31 March ...

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia on Saturday declared an immediate ceasefire, two days after its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan called on fighters to lay down their arms and dissolve the group ...

A delegation from the Kurdish nationalist People’s Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) visited imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan for the third time on Thursday. As ...

Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has asked his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down arms and dissolve the group, potentially ending a decades-long conflict with Turkey ...

Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Pervin Buldan, deputies of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), met on December 28 with Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), who ...

Yeni Yaşam, a prominent newspaper focusing on Kurdish rights, faced another instance of access restriction as its website was blocked once again. This marks the fourth time that the publication's ...

A rare moment of hope and unity unfolded this April in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan region. It was the first Kurdistan National Prayer Breakfast where Muslims, Christians, Yazidis and ...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran hanged a Kurdish activist on Wednesday, a reformist website said, a day after a Western rights group called for his death sentence to be revoked. The Mowjcamp website, citing ...

Groups of female Kurdish fighters, known as Women's Protection Units, have been fighting on the front lines against ISIS for years. While they have been glamorized by Western media, little is known ...

ISTANBUL, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants claimed responsibility for simultaneous attacks on Turkish troops in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, saying nearly 100 security ...

Since 2013, Rwanga Foundation has focused on neglected rural communities, and transformed them into fully solar-powered communities. ERBIL, IRAQ / ACCESS Newswire / November 27, 2025 / Thirty-eight ...