The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Iran's top judicial authority has pardoned two journalists who uncovered the death of a young woman in police custody that triggered nationwide protests in 2022, the judiciary's news outlet Mizan said ...

A video shows an Iranian woman protesting strict hijab laws by stripping and climbing onto a police car in Mashhad. In December, Iran's legislature passed a bill introducing harsher punishments ...

Iran's number of births is set to fall below 1 million a year for the first time, while its death rate continues to go up, Iran's Health Ministry warned. Alireza Raisi said that "mortality will soon ...

Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa. Azizi, 40, had her request for a retrial rejected by Iran’s Supreme Court, her lawyer said on Friday. She was ...

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But Iranian women are rising, leading protests and risking ... for democracy or allow the most dangerous regime in the Middle East to develop nuclear weapons and entrench its power.

Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said on Thursday. The United States and the European Union in January called on Iran to overturn her death sentence.

Tehran (AFP) – Iran may seem an unlikely setting for women's ice hockey, but a fledgling league has seen its young players confront the country's deeply conservative values and financial ...

The total employees arrested since 2021 has risen to 24, a U.N. spokesman said. The Iran-backed Houthis have held them on ...

With its axes of resistance across the middle east in tatters and ongoing internal issues over women’s rights , the economy and the environment, we ask - can the Iranian regime survive 2025?

The call came in the middle of the night. Sondos Shalabi was whispering. There was panic in her voice. “Help please,” she whispered to her father-in-law. “You have to save us.” ...