Since 8 March, five women’s rights activists arrested, arbitrarily detained in solitary confinement and interrogated without ...

Iranian authorities have escalated their crackdown on women’s rights defenders, journalists, singers and other activists demanding equality or who defy ...

The leaders of the autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq on Sunday commemorated the Halabja massacre of Kurds that ...

Nukhsha Nasih, the mayor of Halabja, has been appointed acting governor of the province, a well-placed source in the province ...

They fear the new leadership in Damascus will roll back many of their rights - including teaching the Kurdish language in school and having women in senior governing posts. In a written statement ...

Iranian security forces have arrested four female Kurdish activists in Kurdistan province following International Women’s Day ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Syria’s interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Thursday approved a draft constitutional declaration that ...

United Nations-backed human rights experts allege Israel has caused “disproportionate violence against women and children” ...

American and Iraqi military forces killed a senior Islamic State leader using an airstrike, U.S. Central Command confirmed in ...

(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File) FILE - Kurdish women dance during the Newroz celebrations marking the start of spring in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, March 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco ...

A father has been found guilty of ploughing his Mercedes SUV into his own son at a car wash amid a bitter row over infidelity ...

A high-powered SUV, a family feud, and a moment of impact-what unfolded at a car wash near Glasgow has left a community reeling and a family torn.