The ruling party’s increasingly strong alliance with nationalists has dampened support among the country’s Kurds. On a recent morning, young couples gathered for the inaugural class of a newly built, government-run “marriage school.” A woman wearing a black Islamic-style headscarf flips open a laptop as she prepares to lecture the …

A criminal complaint has been filed in Moscow on behalf of a Syrian citizen who was tortured, killed, and had his corpse mutilated by six individuals in 2017 in the Homs Governorate. The complaint demands the initiation of criminal proceedings against alleged members of the so-called Private Military Company (PMC) …

Eyewitnesses revealed information about the two explosions near the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) headquarters in Kirkuk. Eyewitnesses from the demonstrators told Shafaq News Agency that the Joint Operations forces threw two explosive devices to disperse the protesters. According to Shafaq News Agency correspondent, the explosions took place a few hours …