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Iran alone provided asylum for 1,400,000 Iraqi refugees, mostly Kurds, who had been uprooted as a result of the Persian Gulf War (1990–91) and the subsequent rebellions. Today, a large portion of the Kurdish population is composed of Kurdish refugees and displaced and their descendants.
Seven people were killed during protests in Kurdish regions of Iran overnight, a rights group said, as authorities pursued a deadly crackdown on nationwide demonstrations sparked by Mahsa Amini's ...
Nearly four weeks after Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, was detained in Tehran for "inappropriate attire", the protests show no sign of abating in a bold challenge to Iran's clerical rulers ...
DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran's clerical rulers have stepped up suppression of persistent anti-government protests in the country's Kurdish region, deploying troops and killing at least four demonstrators ...
The operation took place in the Qandil Mountains, the Sinjar District, and Makhmur, against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets, as part of the ongoing Kurdish–Turkish and Kurdish–Iranian conflicts. Claw-Eagle, the air campaign, began on 15 June 2020. Claw-Tiger, the ground campaign, was launched on 17 June. [12]
Iran's Revolutionary Guard fired artillery at headquarters of "Anti-Iranian terrorists" in Iraqi Kurdistan on September 24, 2022. Iran blamed Kurdish dissidents for involvement in the Mahsa Amini protests, and in a televised statement, they stated that the operations "will continue in order to ensure viable border security, punish criminal ...
Iraq has started relocating Iranian Kurdish groups from Iraq's Kurdish region frontiers with Iran to camps far from the border as part of a security agreement between Baghdad and Tehran, Foreign ...
Refugees: At least 1 Million people fled (almost 30% of the population) to Iran, Turkey and Pakistan. Since 1971, at least 370,000 have sought refugee in Iran, over 10% of the Iraqi Kurdistan population; Al-Anfal Campaign 50,000 to 100,000 were killed, including women and children