Politics

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during an open session of parliament, April 30, 2023. (Photo: Vahid Salemi/ AP)

Kurdistan

Iran's Raisi to visit Damascus on Wednesday, in first since Syria war

A-10C Thunderbolt II (Photo: U.S. government)

USA

U.S. Sends ‘Bunker Busting’ Bombs to Boost Deterrence in Iraq, Syria

People evacuated from Sudan arrive at Baghdad International Airport, April 27, 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)

Iraq

15 more Iraqis evacuated from Sudan

On Saturday, April 29, 2023, the President of the Republic of Iraq, Abdullatif Jamal Rashid was officially welcomed by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (Photo: Iraqi Presidency)

Iraq

Iraqi President discusses strengthening bilateral ties with Iranian counterpart

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C), waving next to President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev (R) and Prime Minister of Libya, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh (L). (Photo: Press Office of the Presidency of Turkey / AFP)

Turkey

Combative Erdogan returns from three-day campaign absence

There was a power blackout due to the siege of the Syrian government in the Shahba region (Photo: ANHA)

Syria

Damascus continues to put a siege on Kurds in northern Aleppo

An aerial view of black smoke rising over Khartoum, April 28, 2023. (Photo: AFPTV/AFP)

World

No negotiations until RSF ‘disarmed’, says Sudanese army

United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen. (Photo: AP)

Syria

UN Syria envoy warns violence increasing in Syria

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inaugurates Turkey's first nuclear power plant via a video link, at the Presidential palace in Ankara, April 27, 2023. (Photo: Turkish Presidency via AP)

Turkey

Turkey's Erdogan cancels 3rd day of election appearances

HDP co-chairs Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar visited Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Dec. 2021 (Photo: Anadolu News Agency)

Turkey

Pro-Kurdish party publicly endorses Turkish opposition's Kilicdaroglu for first time

USA

U.S. Sanctions Iran—Second Time this Week

More than 200 exhausted Iraqis evacuated from Sudan flew back to Baghdad on Thursday (Photo: Iraqi government)

Iraq

Exhausted Iraqis evacuated from Sudan back in Baghdad

Sarbaz Barznji (center) poses for a group photo with councillors of London's Lambeth, April 26, 2023. (Photo: Sarbaz Barznji/Twitter)

Europe

Kurd elected as mayor of Lambeth bourough in London

Turkish soldiers detain Syrians attempting to illegally cross into Hatay, Turkey on January 5, 2016 (Photo: Anadolu Photo Agency)

Syria

Turkish border guards kill, torture Syrians: HRW

Members of Peshmerga forces during a graduation ceremony in the Kurdistan Region's capital Erbil, June 21, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)

Kurdistan

Anti-ISIS Coalition hails Progress in Peshmerga Reform

The head of the Kurdistan Regional Emergency Team, Tahsin Sheero Ahmed, on Tuesday received an award from the Turkish president Erdogan (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Turkey

Turkish President honors Kurdistan Emergency Team leader