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US to Impose Costs on Iran for Crackdown on Protests, Biden Says

The United States this week will impose further costs on Iranian officials responsible for violence against demonstrators who protested against Iran's government after the death of Mahsa Amini, President Joe Biden said on Monday. Amini, a 22-year-old from Iranian Kurdistan, was arrested on Sept. 13 in Tehran for "unsuitable attire"…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 4, 2022

Salih Muslim: Divorce Is Inevitable Between the Syrian Regime, Türkiye

Salih Muslim, the co-chairman of the Democratic Union Party, the main party of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, has rejected the PYD having any links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Muslim, however, admitted that the PYD and PKK, which is blacklisted as a terrorist organization in…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 2, 2022

Iran Launches New Strikes on Kurdish Sites

Iran renewed bombing of sites in the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, said an official from Komala Iranian-Kurdish opposition. Atta Nasser said that the Iranian forces launched artillery fire and drone strikes on bases used by exiled Iranian group Komala in the Mount Halgurd area, near the Iranian border. The…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 2, 2022

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Protesters Rally across Iran in Third Week of Unrest over Amini’s Death

Protesters rallied across Iran on Saturday and strikes were reported throughout the country's Kurdish region, as demonstrations against the death of a woman in police custody entered their third week. The protests, sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iranian Kurdistan, have spiraled into the biggest show…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 1, 2022

Protesters rally across Iran in third week of unrest over Amini's death

Protesters rallied across Iran and strikes were reported throughout the country's Kurdish region on Saturday as demonstrations ignited by the death of a woman in police custody entered their third week.

Reuters · Oct 1, 2022

Iran arrests foreign nationals linked to Mahsa Amini protests

Iran said Friday that nine foreigners were arrested during deadly street protests sparked by the death of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, as demonstrations across the country entered a third week amid gunfire.

France 24 · Sep 30, 2022

Kurdish exiles back Iran protests but deny organizing them

Iran has accused Kurdish opposition groups in exile of orchestrating the wave of protests across the country over the past two weeks

The Independent UK · Sep 30, 2022

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Erdogan: Turkish Intelligence Contacts with Damascus will Determine 'Ties Roadmap'

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that his country’s contacts with the Syrian regime were currently limited to the intelligence service, based on which Türkiye would set the road map for its relations with Damascus. Erdogan repeated the threat of a military operation in northern Syria, calling on Russia and…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 30, 2022

Commentary: Iranian women are rising up to demand freedom. Are we listening?

In recent days, protests have shaken the streets of Iran in response to the killing of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian Mahsa (Zhina) Amini. Amini died Sept. 16 after being arrested for her “improper hijab” and apparently beaten by Iran’s so-called morality police. Thousands of Iranians are occupying the streets across the…

Los Angeles Times · Sep 30, 2022

‘Terrifying and inspiring’: Iranian Americans on the protests rocking Iran

Solidarity protests demand bodily autonomy for women in Iran and economic justice for students, teachers and workers

The Guardian - US · Sep 30, 2022

US Confirms Death of American Citizen in Iran’s Attacks on Iraqi Kurdistan

The United States Department of State has confirmed that an American citizen was killed in Iranian missile and drone attacks on Wednesday that struck areas in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. “We can confirm that a US citizen was killed as a result of a rocket attack in the…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 30, 2022

Family frantically searched for Iranian woman after arrest

A cousin of Mahsa Amini recounts the family's frantic search to win her release after the young woman was arrested by Iran's morality police

The Independent UK · Sep 29, 2022

Tehran condemns France for interfering in Iranian internal affairs

Iran on Thursday criticised France for "interference" in its internal affairs after the Paris authorities voiced support for those protesting over the death in custody of young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, arrested by Iranian morality police.

Radio France Internationale · Sep 29, 2022

Pregnant woman dies in devastating Iranian drone strike - but her unborn baby survives

A 24-year-old pregnant woman died in the brutal strikes while her baby was extracted from her corpse and survived in the drone strike by Iran in northern Iraq, targeting Iranian Kurdish opposition parties

Daily Mirror · Sep 29, 2022

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Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 29, 2022

Saudi Arabia Condemns Iranian Attacks on Iraq's Kurdish Region

Saudi Arabia on Thursday has strongly condemned the Iranian attacks on the Kurdish region of northern Iraq that killed and wounded several. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses its strong condemnation and denunciation of the Iranian attacks that targeted the Kurdish region in Iraq, which caused the death and injury…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 29, 2022

Syria and the Kurds

Kurdish leader has said that one of their negotiating counterparts in Damascus questioned whether the registration of Kurdi, the Kurdish language, in the Syrian constitution could one day lead to establishing whistled languages in Syria. The Syrian-Kurdish negotiator said there shouldn’t be an issue with whistled languages if they could…

The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2022

Thursday briefing: Tehran faces a season of dissent - and the Bank of England acts in the UK

In today’s newsletter: Extraordinary protests have lit up Iran after a Kurdish woman died in police custody. Chowra Makaremi walks us through what it all means – and if this could be how the country’s theocracy ends

Reuters · Sep 28, 2022

No U.S. officials injured in Iranian attacks on Iraq, State Dept says

No American officials were injured in Iranian missile and drone attacks on Wednesday that struck areas in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday.

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The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2022

Iran launches airstrike against Kurdish group in northern Iraq

Deadly attack comes in response to KDPI support for ongoing protests over Mahsa Amini death in custody

Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 28, 2022

US National Security Advisor Condemns Iranian Attacks on Kurdish Areas in Iraq

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Wednesday condemned Iranian missile and drone strikes on Kurdish areas in Iraq and said Washington will continue to pursue sanctions and other means to disrupt Tehran's "destabilizing" activities.

France 24 · Sep 28, 2022

Death toll climbs in Iranian drone attack on Iraq’s Kurdish region

An Iranian drone bombing campaign targeting the bases of an Iranian-Kurdish opposition group in northern Iraq on Wednesday killed at least nine people and wounded 32 others, the Kurdish Regional Government’s Health Ministry said.

Radio France Internationale · Sep 28, 2022

Iran police vow to continue crackdown against Mahsa Amini protest movement

Despite international calls for restraint, Iran's police have warned that they will crush protests that erupted nearly two weeks ago following the death of Mahsa Amini after she was arrested for allegedly breaching the rules obliging women to wear headscarves.

The Independent UK · Sep 28, 2022

Kurdish officials: Death toll climbs in Iranian drone attack

An Iranian drone bombing campaign targeting the bases of an Iranian-Kurdish opposition group in northern Iraq has killed at least nine people and wounded 32 others

Reuters · Sep 28, 2022

Iran's hardline president to speak to nation after days of unrest

Iran's hardline President Ebrahim Raisi will speak to the nation on Wednesday, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported, following days of violent nationwide protests over the death of a young Iranian Kurdish woman in custody.

Al Jazeera · Sep 28, 2022

13 dead in Iranian attacks on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq

The attacks focused on bases in Koya, some 60km (35 miles) east of Erbil.

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