Most executions were for drug-related offences, but political dissidents and people connected with mass protests in 2022 were ...

The number of people executed in Iran rose to 901 last year, including 31 women, some of whom were convicted of murdering ...

A Hindu monk in Kerala has urged an end to the tradition requiring male devotees to remove their upper garments before entering temples. Swami Satchidananda, leader of the Sivagiri Mutt ...

VOA’s Kurdish Service spoke with Syria's Luqman Ahmi, the co-chair of the Democratic Green Party, and journalists Parwar Meedi and Masoud Mohammed.

A Syria war monitor said 31 combatants had been killed since Sunday in ongoing battles between Turkey-backed groups and Kurdish-led forces. Swathes of northern Syria are controlled by a Kurdish ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Turkey is hoping for a breakthrough in efforts to end a four-decade insurgency by Kurdish militants after ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Share ISTANBUL (AP) — Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey’s banned Kurdistan Workers ...

ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – On Sunday, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, Commander of Syria's New Administration, announced during a television interview with al-Arabiya, that "the Syrian Ministry of Defense plans to ...

The country's uncertain future has raised questions about the fate of the U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). This week, Syria's new leadership took steps to ...

Bahceli regularly condemns pro-Kurdish politicians as tools of the PKK, which they deny. DEM’s predecessor party was involved in peace talks between Ankara and Ocalan a decade ago, last meeting ...

President Tayyip Erdogan views the SDF as a branch of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a Kurdish group that now seeks greater political and cultural rights in Turkey. Erdogan believes that both ...