2025-09-30T20:09:33+00:00 Shafaq News – Ilam The “Bread, Heritage, Flavor” exhibition opened on Tuesday at the historic Wali Castle in Ilam province, marking Tourism Week and World Tourism Day. Ilam Province, located in western Iran along ...

In the Kurdish province of Şırnak, the Turkish housing development administration TOKI has begun construction on a large-scale project that will involve massive changes to the landscape. The areas affected are Qelaçkê and Bûlbûlê on ...

Kurdish journalists Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin were covering events in North and East Syria when they were killed in a Turkish drone strike in December 2024. Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin were both from ...

The Kurdish Women’s National Unity Platform, consisting of 41 women’s organizations, parties, academics, and independent figures, held its first interim meeting on September 27, 2025, in the city of Sulaymaniyah in South Kurdistan. The meeting ...

Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, incarcerated in İmralı Island Prison since 1999, sent a letter to the Yazidi community in Shengal. This is the third letter the Kurdish leader has sent to the Yazidis recently. The ...

Forces affiliated to the interim government in Damascus erected barriers and closed the roads leading to the Sheikh Maqsood and Ashrafiyah neighborhoods in Aleppo. ANF ALEPPO Tuesday, 30 September 2025, 15:06 The recent unrest in ...

The Bar Association, ÖHD (Association of Lawyers for Freedom), and TUAY-DER in Amed (Diyarbakır) released a report on rights violations in prisons, covering the period from June to August. The report covering prisons in Amed, ...

Cengiz Çandar, Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) MP for Amed (tr: Diyarbakır), stated that the process and the decisions to be taken would be accelerated with the opening of Parliament on October 1. Speaking ...

Politician Idris Baluken emphasized that the process carried out after the ‘Call for Peace and Democratic Society’, and the commission established within this framework, fell short of expectations. Recalling that in past solution processes the ...

The SDF said that they dismantled an ISIS cell in the town of Darnach in Deir ez-Zor and captured its leader. ANF NEWS DESK Tuesday, 30 September 2025, 11:13 The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Media ...