Kurdistan

Iran escalates regional response to protests with strike on Kurdish forces - report

Video and photos from the site of the attack show the destruction of vehicles and other debris from the incident.

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters affiliated with PAK train on January 18, 2026 near Erbil, Iraq.
US President Donald Trump and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan gesture as they pose for a photo, at a world leaders' summit on ending the Gaza war, amid a U.S.-brokered prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025.

Erdogan, Trump discuss Syria, Gaza in call as Syria announces ceasefire with Kurdish forces

GENERAL HUSSEIN Yazdanpanah of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) in front of PAK troops.

'We'll fight side by side in Rojava,' Kurdistan Freedom Party leader tells 'Post' - interview

Syrian government forces are deployed near Al-Aqtan prison on January 19, 2026 in Raqqa, Syria.

US estimates 200 ISIS terrorists escaped Syrian prison, US official says


Syrian Kurdish forces release 50 Islamic State detainees

The agreement was reached between the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) and local tribal leaders

 Members of the Kurdish internal security forces (Asayish) patrol a street in the Kurdish-controlled city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria February 7, 2024.

Iraqi army downs Turkish military drone over Baghdad-administered territory

The drone was downed over the city's central district, damaging a house and injuring a worker at a nearby construction site.

An Iraqi Army helicopter flies during the "Solid Will" military operation against Islamic State militants in the desert of Anbar, Iraq April 23, 2022.

The war on Syrian Kurds and the little-known axis of ethnic cleansing - opinion

Local and global rights groups have raised alarms about these crimes, but the perpetrators continue their campaign, unrestrained by the international community. 

 Supporters of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) gather to celebrate Nowruz, which marks the arrival of spring, in Istanbul, Turkey, March 17, 2024.

My journey through Arab media: A Kurdish journalist’s gloomy account – interview

Suzan Quitaz, a veteran Kurdish journalist, faced bias and hostility in Qatari media for highlighting Jewish and Israeli perspectives.

Suzan Quitaz at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Kurdish fighters met with Turkish artillery strikes in northern Iraq

According to Community Peacemakers Teams (CPT), a local NGO operating in Iraqi Kurdistan, the bombing did not injure or kill any civilians.

A Kurdish man carries a flag with a portrait of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan during Nowruz festival celebrations, in Beirut, Lebanon March 20, 2022.

Iraq claims it has arrested PKK-linked cell suspected of planning attacks

Iraqi official said the arrested suspects had also planned to attack busy market areas in the capital, Baghdad, if there was "pressure from the federal government or government forces against them."

KURDISH PROTESTERS carry flags and a banner with a portrait of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan during a demonstration against Turkey’s military action in northeastern Syria in Zurich, Switzerland, this week

Kurdistan can be Israel's ambassador to the Muslim world - municipal candidate

AT THE TABLE with Yehuda Ben-Yosef, an Israeli-Kurd community leader and municipal election candidate who wants Kurdistan to be Israel's next Azerbaijan.

 In conversation with city councilman Yehuda Ben-Yosef: ‘Jerusalem Post’ Deputy CEO of Strategy and Innovation Maayan Hoffman (L) and ‘In Jerusalem’ Editor Erica Schachne.

Iranian media falsely claims to have ‘injured’ Israeli in Iraq attacks

Iranian media uses antisemitic tropes of an image of a rabbi to claim that a Kurdish businessman was linked to ‘Mossad.’

 Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attend an IRGC ground forces military drill in the Aras area, East Azerbaijan province, Iran, October 17, 2022.

Iran’s attacks on Kurdistan region and Pakistan escalate Tehran’s threats

The overall message of Iran is that it will continue to carry out attacks where it pleases.

 A NEW hypersonic ballistic missile called Fattah – with a 1,400 km. range, unveiled by Iran – is seen in Tehran, June 6.

IRGC attack US consulate in Iraq as tensions between the US and Iran escalate

Several civilians are believed to have died in the attack, with Kurdish regional government officials announcing the death of a prominent businessman and four of his family members.

Funeral of members of Iran's IRGC who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Syria, in Tehran