2025-06-25T20:03:15+00:00 Shafaq News – Erbil The Rwanga Foundation has launched a new initiative to support young entrepreneurs in the Kurdistan Region, partnering with ECHO and backed by the US-based Ideas Beyond Borders (IBB). In a ...

2025-06-25T18:39:38+00:00 Shafaq News – Erbil Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Wednesday congratulated Abu Karwan on his election as Secretary-General of the Kurdistan Communist Party’s Central Committee. During a phone call, Barzani commended Abu Karwan ...

On June 24, the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), in coordination with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), carried out a special operation in the town of Al-Shuhail in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor. During the operation, ...

In a powerful open letter, four incarcerated women activists held in Tehran’s Evin prison have condemned Israel’s airstrikes on Iran and warned against the growing tendency among some opposition circles to place hopes in foreign-backed ...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that law enforcement officers foiled an attempt to seize power by the “Holy Struggle” movement. “Law enforcement officers have thwarted a large-scale and sinister plan of the ‘criminal oligarchic ...

An international campaign titled ‘I want to visit Abdullah Öcalan’ was launched in early June under the initiative of the European Freedom and Peace Platform (EFFP), calling for in-person visits to be allowed with Abdullah ...

Highlighting the importance of the 52-year struggle for freedom, Bese Hozat said: “The will of the Kurds had been broken before the PKK emerged, and the Kurds had been subjected to genocide. They were afraid ...

Artillery attack by the Turkish army targeted a village near Amadiya. As a result of the bombardment that lasted more than an hour, the village school, barns belonging to villagers, and some houses were damaged. ...

According to a statement by the Press Office of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), a delegation consisting of Co-Chair Tuncer Bakırhan, Central Executive Committee member Rezan Kağanarslan, Member of Parliament Nejla Demir, ...

The United States joined Israel’s bombing of Iran on Saturday night. U.S. President Donald Trump announced that American strikes had “completely destroyed” three nuclear facilities in order to prevent Tehran from developing atomic weapons. This ...