At least 10 Kurds arrested during Zhina Amini strike in Iran: Monitor

“At least 10 Kurdish individuals were arrested in recent days in connection with the strike in Oshnavieh, Mahabad, and Sanandaj,” the Oslo-based Hengaw Human Rights Organization said late Wednesday. 

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Iranian Kurdish coalition hails ‘success’ of Zhina Amini anniversary strike

“The success of this civil movement is a sign of the high level of social responsibility, political awareness, national unity, and the rejection of the policies of repression, discrimination, and execution by the people of Kurdistan,” the alliance said.

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Kurdish mullah’s anti-Yazidi rhetoric sparks backlash

The viral footage comes mere days after the 12th anniversary of the Yazidi genocide at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS), a transnational Sunni extremist group.

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KDPI base in Koya targeted in renewed Iranian strikes

“The attacks have intensified over the past week,” a senior KDPI member told The New Region.

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Death toll from missile strike on Iranian Kurdish opposition rises to 10

The Friday attack was the deadliest in the Kurdistan Region since the start of the war.

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Tehran warned leaders against threats from Kurdistan Region in February: Iranian FM

“I gave the authority that if the slightest threat comes to us from the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, we will deal with it. We will definitely deal with it, and we will definitely strike,” Araghchi said.

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Killing of 14-year-old boy sparks protests, strikes in Mahabad

Siawash Alak, a 14-year-old Mahabad resident, was stabbed to death on Wednesday, allegedly by a 16-year-old member of the Mangur tribe, a notorious family from Mukriyan with heavy ties to the government.

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Five KDPI members killed in overnight clashes with Iranian forces in Rojhelat

The clashes came hours after bases of Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in Erbil were targeted in drone attacks.

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PJAK confirms four fighters killed in Mahabad clashes with Iranian forces

Following Iran's recent peace deal with the US, Iranian forces have significantly “intensified their attacks against our people and our forces," the group said, adding that Tehran is “taking advantage of the current situation and targeting our forces with cowardly attacks.”

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