In the 1980s, thousands of Kurds made for these mountains and for Iran, to escape the poison gas attacks of the Saddam Hussein regime. Now, the traffic is in the opposite direction.
At about 10.30, we got a warning that an attack was coming. So we had to disperse. I ran home to Reyhana. I was about five meters from where the rocket landed. I was thrown back. After a couple of minutes, I woke up. We are sitting in the front room
Some of the attacks by Iranian Revolutionary Guards on Iranian opposition party offices in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq in late September struck towns and villages where the parties were not carrying out any military activity, according to local residents.
LONDON: Attacks by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on political organizations in Iraqi Kurdistan last month killed civilians, Human Rights Watch has said. The strikes came amid mass protests across Iran that began on Sept. 16 following the death of a Kurdish woman, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, after she was detained and beaten by the country’s morality police for
Protests spread across Iran after Mahsa Amini, 22, dies in custody following her detention by Iran's "morality police" over compulsory wearing of hijab.