Kurdish leaders on Saturday commemorated International Women’s Day, highlighting the sacrifices Kurdistan Region’s women have ...

The bill to elevate Halabja to provincial status is likely to be passed following its inclusion in the Iraqi parliament's ...

Jamileh Naso, president of the Canadian Yazidi Association, said the global Yazidi community has meticulously documented and ...

Iranian authorities have escalated their crackdown on women’s rights defenders, journalists, singers and other activists ...

Yarrahi’s case has sparked renewed calls from human rights organizations for Iran to abolish flogging and end its crackdown on free expression.

The leaders of the autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq on Sunday commemorated the Halabja massacre of Kurds that ...

ISTANBUL (AFP) - Police detained some 200 demonstrators in Istanbul late on Saturday after more than 3,000 women marched peacefully through the city centre under tight security to mark International ...

AKRE. Iraq (AP) — Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and ...

We demand that this pressure be reduced even further,” Yaz Gulgun, 52, said. The women’s day events were the first planned public demonstrations since the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, announced a ...

Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week have marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time when many are hoping that a new political beginning is on the horizon ...

As per a report by news agency AFP, the woman was named Shanidar Z, after the cave in Iraq's Kurdistan where the skull was discovered. This discovery also led to the investigation of over 40 ...