The Presidency of the Republic of Iraq issued a statement on the 37th anniversary of the Anfal massacre, which was perpetrated by the former regime against the Kurdish people. The statement on Monday reads as ...

Under the name “Anfal Operation,” the Iraqi Baath regime carried out a series of attacks on the Kurdish population and other minorities such as the Assyrians and Chaldeans in rural areas of northern Iraq between ...

Today at Palazzo d’Accursio, the Municipality of Bologna awarded honorary citizenship to Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdish Liberation Movement. The honorary citizenship was handed over to his nephew and DEM Party MP Ömer Öcalan ...

Ali Sharif Zade Erkani, the lawyer of Kurdish actress Shohra Qemer, announced that a Tehran court had sentenced his client to prison. ANF NEWS DESK Monday, 14 April 2025, 15:26 Lawyer Ali Sharif Zade Erkani ...

Sefa Eyli, uncle of Jina Amini, who was murdered in 2022 after being detained by Iran’s morality police in Tehran, was remanded in custody. Eyli was reportedly transferred to Saqqez Prison for the execution of ...

Bafel Jalal Talabani, President of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), has stressed that the Anfal massacre remains one of the most brutal and harrowing campaigns ever undertaken by the former Iraqi regime. He urged ...

2025-04-14T22:33:44+00:00 Shafaq News/ On Monday, senior KDP figure Hoshyar Zebari revealed that Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani spearheaded the push to establish Halabja as a province over a decade ago, launching the proposal during his ...

2025-04-14T17:52:10+00:00 Shafaq News/ Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani on Monday thanked the Iraqi parliament’s leadership and political blocs for their “constructive role” in passing the law to designate Halabja as the 19th Iraqi province. “To the ...

2025-04-14T16:50:06+00:00 Shafaq News/ Kurdish President Nechirvan Barzani on Monday welcomed Iraq’s recognition of Halabja as the country’s 19th province, calling it the culmination of long-standing Kurdish efforts to honor the city’s legacy. “Today’s decision by ...

2025-04-14T15:20:40+00:00 Shafaq News/ On Monday, a joint delegation of British and European Parliament members praised the Kurdistan Region as an example of democracy, freedom, and peaceful coexistence in the Middle East. During a visit to ...