Separately, several Iranian Kurdish opposition parties issued a joint statement urging a general strike also on Thursday to ...

What we are seeing in Iran is not simply an economic crisis. These are primarily symptoms of a deep political crisis,” said ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish opposition parties from Iran held a high-level meeting on Monday aimed at fostering unity ...

Iranian forces "behaved with savage brutality" when they stormed a hospital in Ilam, a nurse told DW. Mass protests continue ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) on Wednesday voiced support for nationwide ...

Iranian forces "behaved with savage brutality" when they recently stormed a hospital in Ilam province, said a nurse who works ...

Iran’s nationwide protests have entered their 12th day, with calm still out of reach as economic pressure mounts on the ...

A Kurdish public strike is constitutional action by other means. In Iranian Kurdistan, it is not merely economic pressure. It ...

Iranian opposition figures told Alhurra that Iran is building a security wall inside Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, running parallel to the Iranian border. Khalil Kani Sinani, a senior figure in the ...

GNI per capita: $4,650 (Iraq $5,600, UK $47,700). Iran’s heavily oil-reliant and centralized economy (around 60% of GDP is ...

One of the more notable developments from the fight against the Islamic State (or ISIS) has been the emergence of a Kurdish public sphere in the Middle East. Since U.S. coalition forces began their ...