Category: Report
Kurdish advocacy group lobbies Biden for reboot with Syrian Kurds
A pro-Kurdish advocacy group has hired its first lobbying firm to urge the Biden administration and the new Congress to keep the Kurds a priority when dealing with Middle East policy, lobbying news website Foreign Lobby Report said this week. New York-based nonprofit Justice for Kurds hired law firm Covington & Burlington “advocate for policies […]
Syrian Kurds hand Baghdad 100 alleged IS fighters
BAGHDAD: A US-backed Kurdish force in northeast Syria handed over 100 alleged Islamic State group fighters to Baghdad this week, a senior Iraqi security source told AFP on Sunday. The Iraqi fighters were being interrogated before being transferred to the judiciary, the source said. But an official with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) denied the handover […]
Two more families join anti-PKK sit-in in SE Turkey
Group of families in southeastern Turkey await return of their children abducted, forcibly recruited by terrorists Two more families joined the months-long sit-in protest against the PKK terror group in southeastern Turkey on Friday. Families of children abducted or forcibly recruited by the PKK terror group have been protesting for more than a year in […]
Child soldier recruitment flourishes amid coronavirus pandemic
More children could be pushed into joining armed groups in conflict zones as families face increasing poverty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a top United Nations official warned Friday. The exact number of child soldiers is unknown, but in 2019 alone about 7,740 children – some as young as 6 – were recruited and used […]
Another crime by PJAK; an 18-month late announcement of an Iranian underage
The PJAK terrorist group, the branch of the PKK for Iran, has always announced the death of its Iranian members late. The PKK-affiliated Firat News Agency (funded by drug trafficking and money laundering), just doing propaganda and publishing the news of PKK deaths, has reported the death of Iranian PKK members for many times, but […]
Deir ez-Zor countryside | SDF storms house of leader’s brother of regime-backed “Tribesmen Army”
Deir ez-Zor province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists say that the Syrian Democratic Forces raided the house of a member of Al-Shaytat clan in the town of Al-Kashkiyeh in Deir ez-Zor countryside, in an attempt to arrest him, but he managed to escape. It is worth nothing that the targeted person is […]
Iranian Kurdish families repeatedly deceived and wandered
As the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch (IKHRW) reports confirm by quoting local sources in Kurdistan province, Iran, some extremist and separatist groups active in the border areas of Iran, using the neighboring countries as a base for their destructive activities, continue to provide their armed men by deceiving and abducting the children while these […]
PKK and Organized Elimination: The Case of Sakine Cansiz
Ethnic cleansing, physical elimination and mass killing the opposition and violent and brutal repression of critics, Ocalan-centerism, police-like approach in controlling and managing group members, severe censorship, kidnapping, marriage prohibition, recruiting women and children for military and security affairs and even as suicide-bombers, using the women and girls in affairs beyond their capabilities, drug trafficking, […]
UN says 12 murdered at al-Hol camp in Syria since start of year
UN expresses concern over ‘deteriorating security conditions’ at camp for displaced people controlled by Kurdish forces. Twelve people have been murdered at the overcrowded al-Hol camp for displaced people in northeastern Syria since the beginning of the year, according to United Nations figures. Imran Riza, the UN’s resident coordinator and humanitarian coordinator for Syria, and […]
Mazloum Abdi’s mother passing away sadly confirms my story
Early this morning, I have received news that Mazloum Abdi’s mother Khaznah Haji Hussein has passed away at age 86. And I feel really bad to say it, but news reports of her passing away has confirmed my earlier research. I wish to express my condolences to the Abdi family. The death of Khaznah Haji […]