2025-08-23T20:57:08+00:00 Shafaq News – Erbil On Saturday, Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani met with US Embassy Chargé d’Affaires in Iraq Steven Fagin to discuss the Region’s financial entitlements with Baghdad and ways to deepen ties ...

On 20 August 2025, the Security Council held a thematic debate on the “Twenty-first report of the Secretary-General on the threat posed by ISIS to international peace and security and the range of United Nations ...

The construction of a Muslim prayer room at the entrance to the sacred Munzur springs in the village of Ziyaret near Ovacık district in the Alevi province of Dersim (tr. Tunceli), ordered by the governorate, ...

At their 1065th vigil against “disappearances” in state custody, the Initiative of the Saturday Mothers demanded clarification of the fate of Mehmet Ertak. The man from Şırnak was abducted by Turkish police 33 years ago ...

Clashes broke out between internal security forces and Lahur Sheikh Jangi’s forces in Sulaymaniyah city center early Friday morning. As a result of the confrontation, which lasted four hours, Lahur and his brothers Aso and ...

Dilşah Özgen, who has been fighting for peace for nearly 30 years, continues to express her demand at the age of 92. Özgen, whose story is similar to that of thousands of mothers in Kurdistan, ...

An appeals board of the Ministry of Education has upheld or intensified disciplinary rulings against seven Kurdish teachers, confirming their dismissal, permanent exclusion, suspension, exile, or forced retirement. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported ...

The Human Rights Association (IHD) branch co-chair Ozan Akbaş stated that the cases of systematic violence and torture reported in the press represent only the tip of the iceberg. He said: “Most of the time, ...

Socialist history professor Antonis Laikos published a message of support to the Call for Peace and a Democratic Society issued by Abdullah Öcalan last 27 February. Professor Laikos drew attention to the bloody conflicts that ...

The Kurdish Culture Festival is organized every year in Brussels to promote Kurdish culture and art. The opening of the festival this year took place with a street parade in Kurdish traditional clothing. Accompanied by ...