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26/07/2025

Dutch photojournalist Michiel Hegener, known for his photographs of the Kurdish revolutionary movement in the 1970s, returns to Kurdistan. Dressed in the same Kurdish attire he wore decades ago, he is revisiting the places and people he captured in his iconic images.

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26/07/2025

“It was like watching a horror film,” said Wefaa Jarmaqani, an American citizen who was visiting family in Syria’s Suwayda province when clashes broke out earlier this month between armed Druze groups and Bedouin tribes.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - “It was like watching a horror film,” said Wefaa Jarmaqani, an American citizen who was visiting family in Syria’s Suwayda province when clashes broke out earlier this month between armed Druze groups and Bedouin tribes.In nine days of clashes, 1,386...

26/07/2025

Mohamed al-Hassan, head of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), said on Saturday he hopes the new agreement between Erbil and Baghdad will be a final settlement of long-running disputes over finances and oil.

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26/07/2025

At least five people were killed and a dozen others were injured when a courthouse in Sistan and Baluchsestan province was attacked by gunmen affiliated with a Baluch group on Saturday morning, according to Iranian media.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - At least five people were killed and a dozen others were injured when a courthouse in Sistan and Baluchsestan province was attacked by gunmen affiliated with a Baluch group on Saturday morning, according to Iranian media. The attack targeted the Zahedan Judiciary...

26/07/2025

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Friday called on the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to speed up their integration into the interim government in Damascus. Negotiations between the SDF and Damascus, however, appear to have hit an impasse with the Kurdish-led force wary about the Syrian government, which it accused of making “unacceptable” demands.

26/07/2025

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Friday called on the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to speed up their integration into the interim government in Damascus. Negotiations between the SDF and Damascus, however, appear to have hit an impasse with the Kurdish-led force wary about the Syrian government, which it accused of making “unacceptable” demands.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Friday called on the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to speed up their integration into the interim government in Damascus. Negotiations between the SDF and Damascus, however, appear to have hit an impasse with the Kurdish-led force...

26/07/2025

Abdullah Ocalan, jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), said he hopes a commission being formed in the Turkish parliament will make "important" contributions to the PKK-Ankara peace process.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Abdullah Ocalan, jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), said he hopes a commission being formed in the Turkish parliament will make 'important' contributions to the PKK-Ankara peace process. A delegation from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’...

25/07/2025

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Friday that Islamic State (ISIS) militants carried out three attacks on its forces in eastern Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province. One SDF member was killed and another was injured.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Friday that Islamic State (ISIS) militants carried out three attacks on its forces in eastern Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province. One SDF member was killed and another was injured. “The terrorist...

25/07/2025

The head of an Alawite association has called on Zaza Kurds in Turkey to preserve and promote their mother tongue.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The head of an Alawite association has called on Zaza Kurds in Turkey to preserve and promote their mother tongue.At the annual Munzur Festival in Tunceli (known to Kurds as Dersim), Zeynel Kete, co-chair of the Democratic Alevi Association (DAD), said the main language...

25/07/2025

French FM Jean-Noel Barrot spoke with SDF chief Mazloum Abdi on Friday to confirm that Paris will host the next round of talks between the SDF and Damascus. Barrot also reiterated France’s support for Syrian Kurds, according to the French foreign ministry.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot spoke with Mazloum Abdi, commander-in-chief of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), on Friday to confirm that Paris will host the next round of talks between the SDF and Damascus. Barrot also reiterated France’s...

25/07/2025

Erbil has asked the United States to provide the Kurdistan Region with a defence system after recent drone attacks targeted oil fields including some operated by American companies, a government official said on Friday.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Erbil has asked the United States to provide the Kurdistan Region with a defence system after recent drone attacks targeted oil fields including some operated by American companies, a government official said on Friday.Safeen Dizayee, head of the Department of Foreign...

25/07/2025

The United States army announced on Friday that it carried out a raid in Aleppo province in northern Syria, killing a senior Islamic State (ISIS) leader and two of his sons.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The United States army announced on Friday that it carried out a raid in Aleppo province in northern Syria, killing a senior Islamic State (ISIS) leader and two of his sons. The raid took place in al-Bab town. The suspected ISIS leader, Dhiya’ Zawba Muslih...