Hashim Finyan Rahim al-Saraji, who is also known as Abu Alaa al-Walae, commander of the pro-Iran Shiite Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada...

A member of the pro-Iran Shiite Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) (Hashd al-Shaabi) stands guard during a pro-Iran rally in...

Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps IRGC, October 2024. Photo: Khamenei's...

Iranian Kurdish rebel fighters from the Kurdistan Free Life Party (Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistane) PJAK, 2017. Photo: AFP Manish...

Kurdish women fighters of the YPJ in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava), April 2025. Thousands of Kurdish women have been killed while...

Protest in support of Syrian Kurds and against Syrian government Islamist attacks on Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) in Sulaimani city, Iraqi...

An Islamic militant aligned with the Damascus government watches as thousands of Kurds flee the Sheikh Maqsud and Ashrafiyeh neighborhoods...

Karwan Gaznay, the spokesperson for PUK Party, Sulaimani, Iraqi Kurdistan, December 2025. Photo: Manish Rai/via iKurd.net Manish Rai | iKurd.net...

A composite image: Barzanis' KDP peshmerga militias, Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, 2014. The so-called Peshmerga in Iraqi Kurdistan are not unified...

General Mazloum Abdi, the commander-in-chief of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces SDF, the de facto army of Syria's autonomous Kurdish...