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  1. Kurdish tread this treacherous ground in Hawraman region to make a living.

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  2. Kayhan Akram was from Saqez city in Kurdish region in western Iran. He was a Kolbar like Farhad Khosravi who froze to death a few days ago. He was critically wounded by Iranian security forces on Sept 15 in Sef border with Iraqi Kurdistan. He died today in a hospital in Tehran

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    This video filmed in Feb 2019 shows the treacherous path Kolbars take to make a living.. Video by

  4. I have asked couple of people in the village of Ney near Mariwan city where Farhad Khosravi came from. My sources are certain tahr Farhad was 17 years of age when he died this week on Tata range in Hawraman region

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    Farhan was 17 but he helped his old father to make ends meet by carrying huge loads on snowy peaks in Hawraman. Two nights ago the two brothers got stuck in blizzard. He went to get help but both died in the dead of night. Farhad’s body was recovered today. I filmed this in Feb

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    A new wave of arrests sweeps Kurdish province of Kermanshah in Iran

  7. Kurdish journalist arrested on terrorism charges in Turkey

  8. Seven Kolbars (from Iran) are missing in these rocky mountains of Hawraman for 2 days. A Kolbar says two are found dead and five are still missing. I took these pics in Feb of old, young and even PhD students carrying goods on their back risking their lives to make ends meet

  9. “Many traumatized people cannot tell the difference between the past and present,” Dr Jan Ilhan Kizilhan. “Such [media] confrontations, if necessary at all, must be prepared by experts, with professional care before and after.”

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    “Iraqi and KRG officials continued to lack a general understanding of trafficking and ability to recognize trafficking indicators”

  11. Retired General James Mattis: elections are about division but governance is about unity... I am less concerned right now with foreign enemies than I am with what we are doing to ourselves

  12. After crushing protests, Iran relieves sanctions pressure by exporting new petrol surplus

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    The Kurdistan Region is now the transplant centre for Iraq's underground human organ market, driven by recipients in dire need of life-saving operations and donors desperate for cash – investigates

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    will continue to utilize the petroleum products sector to bypass sanctions, but it is not yet clear whether the US with launch a fresh crackdown on this trade in the coming months writes

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    “Iraqi, Iranian, and Syrian women and girls, as well as LGBTI persons in the IKR [Iraqi Kurdistan Region], are particularly vulnerable to sex trafficking.”

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    MASSIVE congratulations to the first Kurdish woman MP in the UK Parliament.

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    Human trafficking and the Kurdistan Region’s thriving underground sex trade. investigates.

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    Trafficked: Kurdistan’s trade in human lives - First part of my look at human trafficking in the Kurdistan Region examines foreign workers brought here to clean houses, raise kids. But many are abused behind closed doors, passports seized and wages denied

  19. Due to Turkey’s conflict with the Saudis and the UAE, those Gulf countries began to attach more importance to Kurdish issues and to give more support to the Kurds. Saudi Arabia’s Gulf affairs minister, Thamer al-Sabhan, visited Raqqa and Ain Isa Oct. 17.

  20. Visa issued by the Kurdish authorities at the point of entry across the Kurdistan region is valid for the rest of Iraq, according to a report issued by the new cabinet marking its 100 days in office amazing if implemented

  21. ‘In cold blood': Syria Kurds say killed, robbed by Turkey proxies

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    ’s Abdul-Mahdi to submit resignation to parliament after deadly protests: PM’s office

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    Watch how security forces gunned down unarmed protesters in in one of the bloodiest days to dawn on 's protests. must rein in security forces and put an end to these bloodbaths!

  24. Iran’s response on attack in Najaf consulate: there are “hands’ from Gulf countries instigating this, some Iraqis may have gone along because they were subjected for years to Baathist & Takfiri poisonous propaganda to divide house of Shia بر-عراق-چه-می-گذرد

  25. Reading Turkish news in the morning is anything but boring... you may read about a “baby who did a military salute the moment he was born”. The report concluded with oft-repeated dictum: “Another Turk is born a soldier!”

  26. Halabja survivors urge ‘tough’ response to Syria chemical attacks

  27. This is the harrowing moment a member of security forces who was being chased by protesters in Shahriar town in Tehran on Nov 16 turns around and shoots the protester in the stomach. Via

  28. After talking about Kurdish teaching in 1985,all the Turks in attendance,including journalists and intellectuals, came towards me: ‘So, you want to be an enemy of Turks. You want to divide our country and offer programs in a language that does not exist.’”

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    : The spike in petrol prices sparked four days of violent unrest which left more than 130 dead and thousands of protesters incarcerated.

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  30. Angry IRGC chief Hossein salami live from Tehran just addressed America, Israel, and Saudi Arabia: "you have tried our decisive slaps and you were not able to respond.. if you cross our red lines, we will destroy you"

  31. “Last big protest was about votes but this time it is about hunger,” said one 45-year-old Kurdish housewife, referring to the 2009 protests about the rigged presidential elections. “They think the anger of people is over, but this is just the beginning.”

  32. Iranian authorities are asking for around 30 million tomans ($3000) to free anyone who was detained in the latest crackdown during anti-government protest allegedly to compensate for the damage, a resident from Kurdish city of Mariwan (pic: Mariwan)

  33. One former SEAL commander noted that maintaining discipline among these elite units is so important that the SEAL peer-review panels have removed more than 150 Trident pins since 2011, or more than one a month.

  34. An Iranian official thought the world had forgotten a massacre 31 years ago. He was wrong.

  35. Will demonstrations lead to the Iranian regime’s collapse? by

  36. The cleric witnessed the moment an innocent bystander was gunned down.

  37. "We expect Iran's security forces to exercise maximum restraint in handling the protests and for protestors to demonstrate peacefully. Any violence is unacceptable. We also expect the Iranian authorities to ensure the free flow of information and access to the internet."