2025-09-08T21:00:04+00:00 Shafaq News – Erbil On Monday, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Masoud Barzani cautioned that the planned withdrawal of the US-led Coalition forces from Iraq by the end of 2025 risks paving ...

The Council of Serêkaniyê Refugee Camp, located in the Hesekê countryside of the Cizîrê Canton, issued a press statement regarding the crimes committed by the occupying Turkish state and affiliated mercenary groups. Dozens of camp ...

In the western Turkish metropolis of Istanbul, members and supporters of the largest opposition party, the CHP (Republican People’s Party), are protesting against the removal of the provincial administration and appointment of a trustee. Following ...

A forest fire in Şemdinli district in the province of Hakkari is threatening to get out of control. Since the early hours of Sunday morning, large parts of a wooded area around the village of ...

The trial of Kurdish activist Mehmet Karaca has begun at the Berlin Court of Appeal. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office accuses the 50-year-old man of having been a member of the now-disbanded Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) ...

In a broad-based initiative, the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) has called on the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to finally decide on the long-debated issue of the “right to hope” in the ...

According to data compiled by Rojnews, 21 women were murdered in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) in the first eight months of 2025, while 17 women died under suspicious circumstances. Most of the cases were recorded ...

Three years after the outbreak of the “Jin, Jiyan, Azadî” [Woman, Life, Freedom] revolution in Iran and Eastern Kurdistan, activists from various parts of the world reaffirmed the movement’s goals at an international conference in ...

The traditional Long March, organized every year, will this year take place under the slogan “March for Freedom and Democracy.” The march will be held in Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) state, with young people expected ...

A two-day mass action will be held under the leadership of the Democratic Institutions Platform against the destruction of nature carried out in many areas, particularly the Cudi and Gabar mountains and the Besta region ...