ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Wednesday that its forces killed 13 militants ...

Yet they responded with ballots, not bombs. In a 2017 referendum, 93 percent voted for independence. Baghdad rejected the ...

Statements by the Kurdistan Democratic Communities Union, an umbrella organisation of Kurdish left organisations, and the Kurdistan Free Life Party, based in Iranian/Eastern Kurdistan, also known ...

Iran FM Araghchi says ready to resume US nuclear talks with non-aggression guarantees. He rejects Syria's division, denies ...

Some varieties of Kurdish, such as Sorani, are written in the Sorani alphabet, an Arabic-derived script, while the Kurmanji ...

Iranian prison authorities have told four Kurdish prisoners to hand their young children over to family members or they will be put into the welfare system, a human rights monitor reported on Saturday ...

Iran allegedly executed at least eight Kurdish political prisoners this year over “corruption on earth” and waging war on God. The UN Watch also found Iran responsible for “physical violence” that ...

Iranian Kurdish dissidents have been watching from abroad for signs that the government in Tehran might falter after the 12-day Israel-Iran war. They include a handful of exiled Iranian Kurdish ...

Heading for Turkey to the north and Iran to the east, hundreds of oil tankers snake each day from near Kurdistan's capital Erbil, clogging the Iraqi region's often winding and mountainous highways ...

Iranian Kurdish rebels relax in the shade of the Qandil Mountains. Commander Beryar Gabar (right) said the 2,000 militants in his faction are fighting to create a secular democracy in Iran.

IRBIL, Iraq — From abroad, Iranian Kurdish dissident groups have been watching closely for signs that Iran’s theocracy could falter in its grip on the country, battered by Israeli airstrikes ...