2025-06-18T20:09:17+00:00 Shafaq News/ On Wednesday, the Kurdistan Region’s Counter-Terrorism Directorate announced that an explosive drone was shot down in Erbil province. According to a statement, the drone was intercepted and destroyed at near the village ...

2025-06-18T18:52:35+00:00 Shafaq News/ Turkish artillery carried out more than 40 strikes on Wednesday in Duhok province, the Kurdistan Region, targeting areas in al-Amadiyah district. Local eyewitnesses told Shafaq News that the bombardment reportedly hit near ...

The Israel-Iran war has erupted in full force. Contrary to expectations, the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East to this level could not be prevented. Today, the conflict is not de-escalating but intensifying ...

Members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement are being forced to leave Syria and migrate to Turkey and Lebanon due to increasing financial difficulties and tightened security restrictions imposed by the Syrian government. The recent ...

The Young Women’s Union has opened a Women’s Support Center in Raqqa to help young women develop their skills. The opening ceremony was attended by members of the Zenubiya Women’s Community, the Syrian Free Women’s ...

ISIS attacks in Deir ez-Zor region continue increasingly. ANF NEWS DESK Wednesday, 18 June 2025, 15:07 A civilian was martyred in an ISIS terrorist attack in the town of Muhaimidah, Deir ez-Zor’s western countryside. The ...

Yann Moulier-Boutang, founder of Multitudes magazine, member of the UEF France Scientific Council, and retired economics professor, and US professor Dona Haraway have expressed their support for Abdullah Öcalan’s “Call for Peace and a Democratic ...

In a statement regarding the ongoing war between Israel and Iran, the East Kurdistan Free Women’s Society (KJAR) emphasized that wars between nation-states are not a path to freedom for societies. The KJAR statement on ...

Responding to the call of Leader Apo [Abdullah Öcalan], the PKK decided to end its existence and armed struggle. This was not an ordinary or easy decision to make. We are talking about a fifty-year-old ...

Violence against women in Turkey is no longer a series of isolated incidents; it has become a systematic and deeply rooted crisis shaking the country’s social fabric. Data from women’s organizations and human rights groups ...