Azerbaijanis in Iran, like many other non-Persian ethnic minority groups living under the Islamic Republic, face repression and are denied the right to speak in their mother tongue at official ...

Although not from Tabriz, Pezeshkian was born not far from there, in Mahabad, the capital of West Azerbaijan Province in Iran. Pezeshkian represented the Tabriz region in Iran’s parliament for ...

The late Barzani's legacy remains a driving force in the Kurdish struggle for democracy and self-determination, with his ...

From the Zilan Valley Massacre to the tragedies of Mahabad and Amuda, and more recently, the atrocities in Sinjar, Afrin, and Serekaniye, these events are but a fraction of the systematic genocidal ...

Following Mahabad's collapse under Iranian pressure ... whose government promised better treatment of the Kurds. Initially hopeful, Barzani collaborated with Baghdad, but broken promises soon led to ...

Syria's new authorities struck a deal to integrate the Kurdish-led administration into state institutions, as they push to extend their authority across the country while offering recognition for ...

Following the recent attacks carried out against civilians in the Alawite-majority region in Syria’s coastal region, many Kurds are expressing fears that Syria is heading into yet a new wave of ...

But the Kurds' future depends on more than the good will of the Syrian government. For years, Turkey has been targeting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in Syria's northeast.

The agreement between the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazloum Abdi, and the interim president of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, was welcomed by the Kurds and their political parties ...

That includes “border crossings, the airport and oil and gas fields,” the deal says, in return for recognising Kurds as an “essential component of the Syrian state”, guaranteeing the ...