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THE BORDER between the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Iran.

Four killed in attack on northern Iraq’s Khor Mor gas field, advisor to Iraqi Kurdish PM says

By REUTERS
 Members of a Kurdish group from Germany, Austria and Denmark visited Israel this week to show solidarity in the wake of the Hamas massacre, February 2024

Kurdish solidarity delegation from Germany visits Israel

 People participate in a protest against the Islamic regime of Iran and the death of Mahsa Amini in New York City, New York, U.S., September 27, 2022.

Kurdish cleric sentenced to death in Iran for eulogizing protester

 A US soldier oversees members of the Syrian Democratic Forces as they demolish a YPG fortification and raise a Tal Abyad Military Council flag over the outpost as part of the security mechanism zone agreement, in Syria September 21, 2019.

US-backed Kurdish forces says six fighters killed in drone strike on US base

By REUTERS
 Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with the guests of the Islamic Unity Conference in Tehran, Iran October 3, 2023.

Iran attacked Syria with long-range missile in message to Israel - analysis

urkish Kurds watch smoke rises over Syrian town of Kobani after an airstrike, as seen from the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, October 18, 2014. A U.S.-led military coalition has been bombing Islamic State fighters who

Turkish strikes hit water, power infrastructure in Syria’s Kurdish-held northeast

By REUTERS
urkish Kurds watch smoke rises over Syrian town of Kobani after an airstrike, as seen from the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, October 18, 2014. A U.S.-led military coalition has been bombing Islamic State fighters who

Turkey says it 'neutralized' 20 PKK members in northern Iraq

By REUTERS
 Iranian women walk on a street during the revival of morality police in Tehran, Iran, July 16, 2023

Kurdish-Iranian woman whipped 74 times for not wearing hijab

 Qais al-Khazali, leader of Asaib Ahl al-Haq holds a ballot sheet as he votes during Iraq's provincial council election, at a polling station in Baghdad, Iraq, December 18, 2023.

Iraq heads to provincial elections, first in ten years

 US President Joe Biden delivers an address from the White House last month, after visiting Israel following the Hamas massacre The US playbook lacks the deterrence needed to curb Iran, the writer maintains.

The US should delist this Iranian Kurdish 'terror' group - opinion

 Iraqi speaker of Parliament Mohammed al-Halbousi appears during a vote in Sudani's cabinet at the parliament in Baghdad, Iraq, October 27, 2022.

Iraq parliament speaker accused of 'normalization' with Israel

 PAK FIGHTERS at their base in Pirde, Kirkuk Province.

Why is Iran’s regime so afraid of Kurdish dissidents? - analysis

 Khatareh Plesnick, from Baltimore, poses during a march in support of women's rights in Iran on the anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, outside the White House in Washington, U.S., September 16, 2023.

Iran Guards detain dual national for 'organizing unrest and sabotage'

By REUTERS
 A woman cuts her hair during a protest against the Islamic regime of Iran and the death of Mahsa Amini in front of the Iranian Embassy in Madrid, Spain October 6, 2022.

Iran cracks down on Kurdish dissidents amid Mahsa Amini protests - analysis

 President of the Kurdistan region in Iraq Nechirvan Barzani attends a joint news conference with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (not pictured), in Erbil, Iraq March 7, 2023.

Kurds face unprecedented crisis in face-off with Iran, Iraq - analysis

 A KURDISH Komala fighter looks toward the Iranian border.

Iraq starts relocating Iranian Kurdish fighters from Iran border

By REUTERS
 Smoke rises from the Iraqi Kurdistan headquarters of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), after Iran's Revolutionary Guards' strike on the outskirts of Kirkuk, Iraq September 28, 2022.

Security forces deploy in Iraqi oil city after 4 protesters killed

By REUTERS
 Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take part in an intensive security deployment after Islamic State militants took it over the previous day in Luhaiban village in Kirkuk, Iraq December 6,2021.

Iran-backed militias attack Kurds in Kirkuk