Iranian Kurdish dissidents have been watching from abroad for signs that the government in Tehran might falter after the ...

Since the outbreak of the Israel-Iran war - now halted by a ceasefire - Iranian dissident groups inside and outside of the ...

As a fragile ceasefire with Israel holds, some wonder how much the war has weakened Iran's clerical rule but fear premature ...

Ankara should not take Kurdish demands for education in their mother tongue as a threat to Turkey’s unity, Zekeriya ...

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Several Kurdish politicians received prison sentences a year ago for allegedly organizing the deadly 2014 protests.

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Tensions have escalated between Iraq’s central government in Baghdad and the semiautonomous Kurdish region in the country’s north in a long-running dispute over the the sharing of oil ...

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Iraq’s judiciary is nominally independent. In practice, civil society watchdogs and former officials say it answers to ...