Kurdistan

Iranian police give zero attention to the alarming drug using and trafficking in its Kurdish region, sources inside the region talked to Avatoday on condition of anonymity.

Kermanshah’s prosecutor general urges officials from the local branch of the Department of Islamic Guidance to act against female vendors in the province, ILNA news agency reported on Sunday.

Iranian security forces detained on Thursday more than ten human rights and women activists, who gathered to condemn increasing cases of honor killings and female suicides in the Kurdish region.

Syrian regime officials in Damascus have not hesitated to express their fear of the increasing domination of Kurds over the east of Euphrates, and describe "the alliance of ethnic groups in the regions controlled by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)" as "betrayal."

Human Rights Organization, Hangaw, reported the death of a Kurdish prisoner from heart attack in the city of Bukan after being denied medical care.

Several Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces were killed and wounded in clashes with the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) guerillas Wednesday on Shaho Mountain.

An Iraqi Shiite militia, Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba which was branded a terrorist group by The United States in March, settled in the Iranian Kurdish border city of Shno (Oshnavieh) on late Sunday, local sources told Avatoday.

Iranian Kurds celebrated new year and traditional Newroz Eve on Wednesday, while use the opportunity to show their dissatisfaction with a corrupted failing system.

People in the earthquake-zone of Iran’s Kermanshah faced further difficulties now as President, Hassan Rouhani decided to visit the area in the coming days, almost two years after the tragedy.

Iranian teachers took the streets once again on Thursday across the country, protesting discrimination in salaries, privatization of schools, and the mass arrest of teachers.