2025-08-22T22:13:01+00:00 Shafaq News – Washington The US State Department on Friday urged restraint after overnight clashes in Al-Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan Region left several dead and others wounded. A US State Department spokesperson, speaking to ...

2025-08-22T19:47:19+00:00 Shafaq News – Al-Sulaymaniyah Al-Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan Region slowly returned to normal on Friday after overnight clashes between security forces and armed loyalists of the People’s Front (Bərêy Gel-PFP) Head Lahur Sheikh Jangi, ...

A major infrastructure project to improve the drinking water supply is being implemented in the city of al-Mansoura in the autonomous region of North and East Syria. According to the People’s Council of the city ...

A documentary film commemorates Kurdish journalist Gülistan Tara one year after her death. The film, entitled “Gulistan Tara: Ronahiya Rastiyê” (English: “The Light of Truth”), will be shown on Saturday evening (August 23) at 8 ...

In a statement on Friday, the Peace Foundation criticized the Turkish Parliament’s “National Solidarity, Brotherhood, and Democracy Commission” restricting the Peace Mothers from speaking in Kurdish during the fifth meeting of the commission held on ...

The operation to capture Lahur Sheikh Jangi, leader of Berey Gel (People’s Front), in Sulaymaniyah resulted in heavy clashes and casualties. According to local authorities, three members of the security forces were killed and more ...

According to information provided by the Fars News Agency based on local police sources, unidentified armed men ambushed two police patrols near the city of Iranshahr. Five security officers were killed as a result of ...

The German government has declined to comment on the impending deportation of Kurdish activist Mehmet Çakas to Turkey. In response to a written inquiry from the German Parliament (Bundestag) member Cansu Özdemir of The Left ...

At its fifth meeting in the Turkish Parliament on August 20, the National Solidarity, Brotherhood, and Democracy Commission heard representatives from the Saturday Mothers, Peace Mothers, Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Aid Foundation (İHH), ...

U.S. Central Command forces conducted a successful raid in northern Syria on August 19, killing a senior ISIS member and key financier who planned attacks in Syria and Iraq. According to the CENTCOM statement, the ...