In northern Iraq, the only air defence comes from the US military stationed 175 miles away in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish area. But that’s in place primarily to defend American troops ...

We are Iranian Kurds. We come from families rooted in the western highlands, from Kermanshah, Kordestan and Ilam, from communities that have carried the brunt of the Islamic Republic’s cruelty for as ...

The move cements a US-brokered truce and signals Damascus’s intent to integrate the Kurdish-led northeast into the national ...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights has condemned the torture and killing of Alaa Adnan al-Amin, who was forcibly disappeared in October 2025.

A drone struck a key US diplomatic facility in Iraq on Tuesday in suspected retaliation by pro-Tehran armed groups over the US-Israeli war on Iran, The Washington Post reported, quoting an ...

At a military camp in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, a commander tells NPR his armed opposition group is waiting for a chance to go into Iran.

A drone strike in Iraq’s Kurdistan region killed a member of an Iranian Kurdish armed opposition group on Wednesday, his exiled party said, with a senior ...

For Iran, survival is victory. The martyrdom of Khamenei has had a rallying effect, and its strategy is built on domestic ...

Turkey has been watching with growing concern as the war between its neighbor Iran and the US and Israel escalates. Ankara fears the conflict could destabilize the region.

His rise signals a shift toward total resistance. With nothing left to lose and his family line decimated by coalition ...

Between 4,000 and 5,000 Iranian Kurdish fighters are based in Iraqi Kurdistan. They have high hopes for the US-Israeli ...

Nechirvan Barzani, the head of Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), on Tuesday congratulated Mojtaba Khamenei on his appointment as Iran’s new supreme leader, according to a KRG statement.