A Kurdish teacher in Iran’s Kurdistan province was jailed on Saturday after being sentenced to five years in prison for ...

(credit: REUTERS/STRINGER IRAN) “We see this historic step as a long-awaited ... Barzani added, “We had already begun the process of recognizing it as the fourth province in the Kurdistan Region.” The ...

The prospects of Kurds being able to realise their aspirations for statehood have brightened. At the same time, Kurds remain ...

Emergency teams battling the inferno sparked by a massive explosion at the Shahid Rajaee port in the southern Iranian city of ...

Basra and Anbar provinces are demanding self-governance under the framework of Iraq’s federal constitution, citing the ...

The skies will be mostly clear. The low will be 4°. Poor air quality (101-150) Primary pollutant PM2.5 11 μg/m³ Pressure is the weight of the air in the atmosphere. It is normalised to the ...

Many strategic analysts make a mistake by reducing Iran solely to its Persian identity, failing to highlight the ethnic ...

The renewed American air campaign underscores Washington’s intent to curb Houthi military influence and counter Iran’s proxy ...

If the mainly Kurdish provinces of the southeast were to become independent, their state would be landlocked and weak in a highly volatile region—a tempting target for powers such as Iran ...