Kurds and Kurdistan have never felt so much promise. Federalism in Iraq is secure. Iraqi Kurdistan attracts billions of dollars in investment,

Revolution in Iran is only a matter of time, Leon Panetta, the new United States defence secretary, has said as he predicted an uprising similar to those sweeping the Middle East.

TORONTO - Jack Layton's family has released a letter the federal NDP leader wrote just two days prior to his death today at the age of 61.

The Kurds’ ongoing struggle for more cultural and political rights in Iran is more isolated and fragile than ever before, with countless splits occurring in the Iranian Kurdish parties and often ferocious in-fighting.

17th Session of the human rights in UN-Geneva June 9th 2011 Südwind Ladies and Gentlemen, Defender of human rights of Religious Minorities, Before I start with my report, I would like have you to pay attention to some term, I am going to use:

17th Session of the human rights in Geneva June 6th 2011 Ladies and Gentlemen, This parallel Session of the Association of Human Rights in Kurdistan of Iran, in Geneva, entitled “who are the people of Iran?”

In the latest Presidential election the U.S. has chosen to withdraw from Iraq. There will be an inevitable vacuum in the region

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The biggest threat to the ruling ayatollahs and generals in multi-ethnic Iran does not come from the embattled democratic opposition movement

Adam Sage, Paris Iran's religious leadership is orchestrating a campaign of killings and arrests in Kurd provinces as it seeks to prevent pro-democracy protests from spreading to the country's

he Kurds’ ongoing struggle for more cultural and political rights in Iran is more isolated and fragile than ever before,