Businesses in several Kurdish cities in Iran went on strike Wednesday after Kurdish groups called for a protest against the death sentences of two female political prisoners. Six Kurdish groups ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iranian Kurdish opposition groups called for a general strike in the western Kurdish areas (Rojhelat ... Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), Komala, the Free ...

(Beirut) – Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights ... arrested Moradi in the city of Sanandaj in Kurdistan province ...

Several individuals in Sanaa, Saqiz and Sardasht, in Iran’s Kurdistan region, have been arrested for participating in strikes protesting the death sentences of Pakhshan Azizi and Varisha Moradi ...

Another rebel group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), has taken control of the Arab-majority city of Deir al ... it would lie in the Kurdish-majority areas where Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey meet.

Protests in Iran are continuing despite a harsh crackdown by security forces. Human rights groups say that at least 201 people have died in the violence that was triggered by the death in custody of a ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The United States on Tuesday called on Iran to overturn the death sentence of Kurdish woman Pakhshan Azizi and to stop targeting Kurds after she was sentenced for ...