(Beirut) – Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch said today. “Iranian authorities are using the death ...

KESTA VILLAGE, Kurdistan Region - A villager in Duhok province's Kesta village has been raising chickens in an open area and ...

ALBAWABA - In a horrifying incident that set the internet ablaze, a Kurdish woman who miraculously escaped prison in Iran's Kurdistan claims to have been brutally tortured and gang-raped by ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Amnesty International on Monday called on Iran to “immediately” release Kurdish humanitarian aid worker Pakhshan Azizi and call off her execution, saying she was ...

Businesses in several Kurdish cities in Iran went on strike Wednesday after Kurdish groups called for a protest against the death sentences of two female political prisoners. Six Kurdish groups ...

TEHRAN - Iranian Kurds in the mountainous Uramanat region, which is a UNESCO World Heritage as well, gathered for the annual three-day Pir-e Shaliar festival, a centuries-old folk celebration honoring ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

With a population exceeding 30 million, the Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without their own state. Instead, they are spread across Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. Kurds have been ...

United Nations human rights experts expressed serious concern on Tuesday regarding the Iranian Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the death sentence of Kurdish activist Pakhshan Azizi. Experts said ...

Iran has given temporary reprieve from execution to Kurdish activist Pakhshan Azizi, but the uncertainty has only increased the agony of her family, rights activists said. Ms Azizi, 40 ...