Turkey Turkish police arrested 21 women affiliated with Kurdish movements for holding an event on International Women’s Day in Mardin on March 16. Among…
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Kirkuk In a new wave of Arabization, the Kirkuk court ruled in favor of the Arab settlers, taking 3,000 Dunams (741 acres) of agricultural…
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Iraq Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) acknowledged it struck Erbil with a dozen Fateh-110 ballistic missiles on March 13. The IRGC claimed it…
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March 18, 2022, marks the fourth anniversary since the Turkish invasion of the Kurdish city of Afrin and its districts. The invasion resulted in…
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Kirkuk Iraq’s Minister of Defense has ordered the eviction of 150 Kurdish families. The minister ordered the expulsion after former owners, mostly senior al-Ba’ath…
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Washington Kurdish Institute Dominic Brunaccioni March 9, 2022 Section I: Background on Afrin Antiquity to 2012 The city of Afrin (Kurdish: Efrîn, Syriac: ܥܦܪܝܢ,…
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Iran On International Women’s Day, March 8, the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights announced Iranian authorities had arrested 35 female activists in Iranian Kurdistan…
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Washington Kurdish Institute Dr. Shilan Fuad Hussain March 8, 2022 To begin, the mosaic containing the story of Kurdish women contains many colorful tiles…
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Kirkuk On Wednesday, March 2nd, owners of large poultry farms protested in front of the Agricultural department, against the Iraqi forces for forcing them…
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Iran Iranian security forces arrested two members of the socio-cultural organization known as Nozhin. Pajam Meri and Waran Nazhad were arrested in Sanandaj on…