Amnesty International, 18 March 2015, 17:03 UTC The Iranian authorities must prove that their participation at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva is more than a mere PR exercise, by halting any plans to execute an alleged juvenile offender and ordering a judicial...
Published by Ekurd.net, May 12, 2015 QANDIL,—Spring has arrived in Qandil, the majestic mountain range separating Iran from Iraq. But the bucolic calm enveloping this far-flung corner of the Middle East could be shattered at any time. Iranian fighter jets periodically...
Published by The New York Times, BEN HUBBARD and KARAM SHOUMALIMAY 4, 2015 AKCAKALE, Turkey — The laborers work all day, piling bags of fertilizer onto carts and wheeling them through the crossing that connects this southern border town to Syria. The Syrian town next...
By Menekse Tokyay | Special to Al Arabiya News Thursday, 7 May 2015 Turkey will start training and equipping moderate Syrian rebels from May 9 at a military base in central Kırşehir province, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told Yeni Şafak newspaper. A group...
Published by Ekurd.net, May 8, 2015 MAHABAD, Iranian Kurdistan,— Protests continue in Mahabad city of Iranian Kurdistan (Rojhelat) after a young Kurdish woman committed suicide to avoid rape by intelligence officers. Farinaz Khosrawani, 25, jumped off the fourth...
60 members of the European Parliament have issued a statement calling on EU and member states to provide urgent support for the reconstruction in Kobanê and ensure the opening of a humanitarian corridor into the town. Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 12:00 PM BRUSSELS...
