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Months after dictator Bashar al-Assad fled Syria, the country’s Kurdish population faces continued uncertainty — and Turkish ...
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 in t ...
COMMENT: Those living in Iran thought Israel’s attacks might lead to freedom – but Netanyahu only really wants a nation ...
An official with the PAK says their fighters are mainly based in Iraq with dozens of cells inside Iran. The official says ...
Iraq’s judiciary is nominally independent. In practice, civil society watchdogs and former officials say it answers to dominant political blocs, particularly those aligned with Iran. At the apex of ...
As the Kurdish freedom movement, we act with awareness of this historical reality and truth. We believe that all the prevailing problems can and must be solved through democratic politics.
Kurdish fighters have consistently battled America’s worst enemies — jihadist groups like ISIS, al Qaeda and others— sparing American blood and treasure. ... Given economic freedom, ...
Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the PKK, called on the group to disarm in February. After 40 years, with 40,000 people killed, and without securing a Kurdish homeland, the banned Kurdistan Workers ...
August 11, 2014 – (IRAQ) Kurdish fighters in Kurdistan, who are called Peshmerga, ... The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons, or TAK – an offshoot of the Kurdish separatist group PKK ...
DUBAI/GENEVA - The Kurdish-led group which governs northeast Syria on Friday rejected a constitutional declaration issued by the new Islamist leadership in Damascus and called for it to be rewritten.
It upheld the central role of Islamic law and provided for freedom of opinion. But the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Council said it did not go far enough in protecting the rights of Syria's ...