Kurds in Iraq and Syria celebrate the Newroz festival of spring at a time of new political horizons
Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week have marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time ...
PHOTO GALLERY:The Persian New Year of Nowruz
An Iranian man jumps over a firework celebrating Chaharshanbe Souri, or Wednesday Feast, an ancient Festival of Fire on the ...
In Moorhead, growing Kurdish population builds culture with the only class of its kind in Minnesota
The Kurdish American Development Organization started teaching Kurdish language classes at its office in Moorhead, home to ...
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Peace hopes remain remote as Turkey's Kurds mark 'Newroz'
Three weeks after jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan urged his militants to disband, Turkey's Kurds were celebrating their ...
Kurds in Iraq, Syria celebrate Newroz festival of spring
Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week have marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time when many are hoping that a new political beginning is on the horizon ...
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Iran: Authorities target women’s rights activists with arbitrary arrest, flogging and death penalty
Iranian authorities have escalated their crackdown on women’s rights defenders, journalists, singers and other activists ...
In a bunker with a woman battlefield commander in Syria: ‘To be under the control of a patriarchal husband? I prefer to be here’
The commander said she couldn’t go outside without taking “precautions” because she could be hit by a Turkish drone. However, ...
Nowruz: The best New Year celebrations across Central Asia and beyond
Several Euronews correspondents have collected their thoughts about Nowruz and the New Year to detail the how the ...
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Iran to dismantle morality police, but to punish Hijab law violators
ALBAWABA - In a remarkable move, the Iranian government has decided to dismantle the morality police, a unit formed in 2005 ...
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Iran: Authorities continue to 'crush' women's rights activists with arbitrary arrest, flogging and death penalty
Since 8 March, five women’s rights activists arrested, arbitrarily detained in solitary confinement and interrogated without ...
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Iran: Singer arrested for performing without hijab
In 2022, Iran saw a wave of mass protests following the custodial death of a Kurdish Iranian ... Many Iranian women say they ...