Iraqi Kurdistan faces a deepening economic crisis as unpaid wages pile up
Iraq’s semi-autonomous north is grappling with a severe economic crisis, with many residents forced into massive personal debt.
Kurdish Fighters Called a Truce, but Turkey Kept Up Lethal Strikes
Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...
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Hundreds of Kurdish families return to Afrin as settlers leave
Error occured during this request! Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A Kurdish politician on Saturday said that more than 600 settler families have ...
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Middle East: What an end of the PKK would mean for Kurds
Kurds in the Middle East have been in a state of limbo since Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, gave his pioneering speech in late February. In his ...
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Syrian Kurdish commander demands accountability for those behind mass killings
Commander of Syrian Kurdish-led forces Mazloum Abdi, attends an interview with Reuters in Hasakah, Syria December 19, 2024. REUTERS/Orhan Qereman/File Photo UPDATED Mar 09, 2025, 09:18 PM ...
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VOA Kurdish: Pressure on press in Turkey increases
A case has been filed against Kurdish journalist Diren Yurtsever by the 23rd High Criminal Court, with a potential sentence of one to three years. Yurtsever had previously spent seven months in ...
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Syrian Kurdish commander demands accountability for those behind mass killings
QAMISHLI, Syria March 9 (Reuters) - The commander of a Kurdish-led force in Syria said on Sunday the country's interim president must hold the perpetrators of communal violence in Syria's coastal ...
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Louisiana death row inmate seeks more ‘humane’ method of execution
A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more ...
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VOA Kurdish: Syria's Druze are caught between internal struggles, regional power plays
Tensions are escalating in Syria's southern province of Suwayda between local Druze residents and the Sunni-led central government, as the latter seeks to assert its authority in the Druze ...
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Syria announces the end of a military operation against Assad-linked gunmen in a coastal region
Rubio said the U.S. “stands with Syria’s religious and ethnic minorities, including its Christian, Druze, Alawite, and Kurdish communities.” Thousands of Syrians from the coastal area fled ...
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Double murderer is first US inmate executed by firing squad in 15 years
'Everybody in the room flinched', says witness to Brad Sigmon's execution by firing squad A South Carolina man convicted of bludgeoning his ex-girlfriend's parents to death has become the first US ...
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Chilling last words of death row inmate first to be executed by firing squad in 15 years
The last words of a death row inmate who was the first in the US to be executed by firing squad in 15 years have been revealed. Brad Sigmon, 67, was shot by three prison guards at the Broad River ...