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Senior IRGC Navy officer dies in car crash as insurgencies escalate across western Iran

This comes after four members of Iran's IRGC were killed, and several others were wounded in what the IRGC described as "terrorist" shootings in western Iran on the same day as the crash.

|ByMAARIV, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A man looks through a screen during a state funeral service in Enqelab Square, for military commanders and others killed in the recent war with Israel on June 28, 2025 in Tehran, Iran. Israel and and Iran traded daily aerial attacks over a 12-day period until a ceasefire took effect on June 24.
Armed members of the Syrian Democratic Forces' (SDF) military police take part in a demonstration under the banner “With our will, we will protect our revolution.” in Qamishli, Syria, September 17, 2025.

Syria’s Kurds confront defeat after decades of resistance - opinion

Abandoned by allies and pressured by Turkey, Syria’s Kurds were forced to surrender autonomy to Damascus.

|ByDAVID L. PHILLIPS
Iranian Kurdish fighters from the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) take part in a training session at a base on the outskirts of Erbil, Iraq February 12, 2026.

Kurdish forces: A crucial piece in Iran’s democratic future - opinion

Leading Kurdish figures shared their views on challenging Iran’s clerical regime, envisioning a post-Islamist era and potential collaboration with the US and Israel, on webinar.

|ByOFRA BENGIO, VEYSI DAG, ELYANA ELYAN
Fighters from the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), an Iranian Kurdish opposition group, are pictured near the border with Iran in Iraq's Kurdistan Region, in the outskirts of Sulaimaniya, Iraq, June 21, 2025.

Kurdish militias face high-stakes gamble in potential US alliance against Tehran - interview

Beyond what many see as a recent betrayal, the reality for Kurds in the Islamic regime will likely only worsen if the US and Israel fail to secure regime change.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Iraq’s Kurdish region alarmed by U.S. withdrawal

Discussions to try and soften Ankara’s stance, dilute PKK role in eastern Syria came to naught.

DECEMBER 20, 2018BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A KURDISH peshmerga soldier stands at a lookout near Bashiqa in northern Iraq

Traveler in Kurdistan

Pointing a lens at one of the Middle East’s least understood groups.

DECEMBER 8, 2016ByARIEL DOMINIQUE HENDELMAN
Not as risky or adventurous as one might think: ‘Yehuda’ discusses his recent trip to Iraqi Kurdistan, at the Abraham Hostel

What is preventing Kurdish independence?

If Kurds find a way to be a key US ally against Iran, the situation might change radically.

NOVEMBER 19, 2016ByFUAD SHAHBAZOV
Kurdish peshmerga forces on the way to Mosul

Iran: Dictatorship inside, instability outside

we believe there is a strategic convergence between the interests of nations inside Iran and the region’s main actors that can bring a new order to the Middle East.

JUNE 30, 2016ByMUSTAFA HIJRI
Turkish Kurds look towards the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani from the top of a hill close to the border line between Turkey and Syria near Mursitpinar bordergate

Kurdistan’s economic woes

Salaries for the Peshmerga is not the only vital area where funds have gone dry.

APRIL 9, 2016ByGLENN FIELD
Syrian Kurds from Kobani walk to the border fences as seen from the Turkish border town of Suruc

Those who face death: The kinship between Kurds and Israelis

From the security offices of Kirkuk to the front lines against Islamic State and the devastation left behind at Shingal, Peshmerga fighters remain stalwart in their battle against terrorist elements.

JANUARY 23, 2016BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Hussein Yazdanpana, vice-president of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) gestures as he shows the frontline position his soldiers occupy fighting Islamic State northwest of Kirkuk

A world against ISIS

All the countries on both sides of World War II have been united by a common scourge.

JANUARY 3, 2016BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Two Kurdish members of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) look through their gun sights toward Islamic State positions on the front lines northwest of Kirkuk

A look into the life of the Mount Sinjar Yazidis, one year post Islamic State siege

For the Yazidis, life has become a nightmare.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015ByAVA HOMA
Yazidi women and children at the United Nations refugee camp at Arbat, near Sulaimani, in the semiautonomous Kurdistan Region of Northern Iraq

Report: Israeli-Canadian woman who went to fight ISIS, returns to Iraq to work with charity

Rosenberg, 31, who made international news late last year when she traveled to Kurdistan denies CYCI claim that she is part of the group.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015ByBEN HARTMAN
Gill Rosenberg

Report: Majority of Israeli oil imported from Kurdistan

Importing crude from Erbil could be geopolitically, economically favorable for Jerusalem, says expert.

AUGUST 24, 2015BySHARON UDASIN
A Kurdish oil tanker is seen off the coast of Ashkelon