Akdeniz district Kurdish Mayor Hosyar Sariyildiz (right) with his co-mayor Nuriye Aslan, Mersin province, Turkey, 2023. Photo: X MERSIN,— A Kurdish...

Israeli researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov kidnapped in Iraq in March 2023, reportedly by Shiite militias. Photo: Tsukov's FB JERUSALEM,— Israeli officials...

Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, January 8, 2025. Photo: Turkish Foreign Ministry ANKARA,— Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on...

Iranian Kurdish activist Pakhshan Azizi on death row in Iran, 2024. Photo: SM PARIS,— An Iranian Kurdish activist is facing...

Ilham Ahmed, a senior Syrian Kurdish official and co-head of the Foreign Relations Department in the Democratic Autonomous Administration of...

Newly-elected Lebanese President Joseph Aoun (center), reviews the honor guard upon his arrival at the Lebanese Parliament to be sworn...

General Mazloum Abdi, the commander-in-chief of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava), 2025. Photo: AFP QAMISHLO,—...

Secretary Antony J. Blinken (right) speaks with Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, during a meeting with the foreign ministers of...

A Kurdish electricity worker in Sulaimani, Iraqi Kurdistan, 2018. Photo: Hawlati Newspaper ERBIL,— Iraq's Kurdistan Region continues to face a...

Photo: Creative Commons/farsnews/wikimedia GENEVA,— The number of executions in Iran reached 901 last year, marking a sharp increase and the...