Turkey is intensifying its attacks on the Syrian town of Ain Issa, in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, according to a commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).Read More
Savan Abdulrahman – Iraqi Kurdistan It was a normal day for Payman, Kawa and their two children, working at their market in the Kuna Masy resort of South Kurdistan, Sulaymaniyah — when suddenly their shop was devastated by a Turkish bomb.Read More
Çiçek Kobanê (Dozgin Temo) was captured and arrested by jihadist mercenaries during a military operation in Eyn İsa.Read More
The search for Gülistan Doku that had been terminated in Turkey, has resumed. Gülistan Doku is a university student who has been missing since 5 January.Read More
Eylül Deniz Yaşar – Diyarbakır The Ak family is one of the families that has not left Diyarbakır’s war-shattered district of Sur in Turkey since the curfews and conflicts that began in 2015. Living homeless for five years now, Mehmet Ak said: “Erdoğan bombed, destroyed and took our home. We have been living on the […]Read More
Hasankeyf (Heskif), one of the most significant cultural heritage sites in the world where life had been uninterruptedly going on for the past 12,000 years, was submerged and destroyed by the Ilisu Dam on the River Tigris in southeastern Turkey. Director Elif Yiğit has captured this destruction in her documentary feature ‘Heskif’.Read More
Turkish envoy Osman Köse, Osman Muhammed Ali and Beşdar Ramazan Salih were murdered during an incident in Iraqi Kurdistan on 17 July 2019. Six people were arrested and placed on trial.Read More
Iraqi Federal Police have found a mass grave containing the bodies of people killed by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Kirkuk.Read More
MedyaNews Exclusive by Fréderike Geerdink There are twenty one cases of Covid-19 at present in Makhmur camp, the refugee camp in Iraq where Kurds who had fled from state violence in the southeast of Turkey during the 1990’s now live. Five people are in a serious condition.Read More
In Iraqi Kurdistan, a large number of Christians have left the country due to continued targeted violence and threats against them. The region’s smallest religious minorities, including Chaldo-Assyrian Christians, other Christians, Sabean Mandaeans and Yazidis, have been particularly affected.Read More
