Iranian director Arsalan Amiri has won the award for best director for his drama “Zalava” at the 8th Duhok International Film Festival in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region.

The Commander of Iran's IRGC Quds Force Brigadier General Esmail Ghaani is going to visit Iraqi Kurdistan.

UNESCO designated Kermanshah as creative city of gastronomy, the United Nations said on Monday, November 8.

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy Mehdi Safari met on Tuesday with Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party leader Bafel Talabani in Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

An Iranian Kurdish teacher has been nominated to receive the Global Teacher Prize awarded by the Varkey Foundation, an institution which works in partnership with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

The winners of the International Cinema and the Iranian Cinema competitions of the 38th Tehran International Short Film Festival were announced at the short film "Capsule" will be introduced to nominated for the 2022 OSCARS®.

The official media of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) called the commander of the Ranya police a wanted man who was killed during resistance against enforcing the law.<br> Security forces had been order to execute his arrest warrant.

The Secretary-General of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs, Jabar Yawar said on Friday, November 26, the announcement of the defeat of the Islamic State (ISIS) by the federal government was mistaken.

Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert said on Tuesday, November 23, that so far, there is no evidence of &quot;systemic fraud” in Iraq’s parliamentary elections held on October 10.

University and institute students protested in the Kurdistan Region for a third day in a row, calling on the government to resume payment of their monthly stipends.

Kurdistan Region President, Nechirvan Barzani, received the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Iraq, Michel Rentenaar, in the Region&apos;s capital city, Erbil, earlier on Monday.

Major General Tahsin Khafaji, the spokesman for theIraq&nbsp; Joint Operations Command, said on Sunday, November 21, there were no barriers in implementing the Shingal agreement.

A major drive is being launched on Saturday to delist the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) as a terrorist organisation, to mark the 43rd anniversary of its founding.

Turkey’s president has received the lowest grade from consumers in his political career as his controversial economic policy is expected to further fuel inflation in the coming months.

Imprisoned Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas has urged Turkey’s opposition leaders to jointly call on the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to resign over the recent plunge of the lira to historic lows, local media reported on Wednesday, citing a tweet shared from his account.

Turkey is not moving away, but is being pushed&nbsp; away from the European Union by the actions of some European countries, Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Faruk Kaymakci said.

The leaders of Turkey’s opposition parties on Tuesday called for action against the plunging lira after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan doubled own on his vow to keep interest rates at below inflation, sending the currency to historic lows.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been at the forefront of Turkish politics for more than 15 years, but since an electoral alliance between the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) in 2017, Erdogan seems politically vulnerable. In view of the fact that Turkey’s economy is facing currency and debt crises and with support for the ruling party dwindling, Erdogan’s political fate rests largely in the hands of the MHP. The ultranationalist party is known to have encouraged Erdogan to take a harsh stance on minority rights, especially against Kurds and the West.

Mazlum Kobane led North and East Syria to a resounding victory over ISIS. Now, the Kurdish commander is asking his partners in that fight for support in a diplomatic feat no less ambitious: ending Turkey’s decades-long war against its armed Kurdish resistance movement, a conflict that threatens to destroy everything North and East Syria has built.

A member of the Central Committee of the Syrian Kurdistan Union Party (PYKS) said that Kurdish parties should seek strong lobbying among world powers and influential countries in order to secure the rights of the Kurdish people.

Syrian Kurdish leaders met with the Russian FM in Moscow, discussing relations with Damascus and a political solution to the civil war.

The Turkish army and proxy groups bombed the outskirts of Ain Issa in Syrian Kurdistan.

The central government must accept the system and the decisions of the autonomous administration and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which has become a military force.

After a number of rockets slammed into a residential neighborhood in Syria’s northern Kurdish-majority city of Afrin on the previous day, a senior United Nations official strongly denounced the action on Saturday.