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Kurds

May 2024

  • Al-Hawl refugee camp - Jabal Baghouz, or Baghouz Mountain. US officials describe Isis as active inside, using the camp as an incubator for the next generation of extremists

    US repatriates two dozen westerners from Islamic State camp in Syria

    Group includes 11 US citizens, including five minors, but tens of thousands of people remained detained five years after defeat of IS

April 2024

  • Heartfelt … Bayan Layla as Elaha

    Elaha review – sex, patriarchy and second-generation identity

    A seriously intentioned drama about a young Kurdish woman who feels she has to surgically ‘restore’ her virginity before her wedding

March 2024

  • A woman holding a bunch of red flowers stands on a mountain top against a dramatic cloudy sky

    ‘Every girl in Iran is born into a cage’: exiled Kurdish women taking up arms in Iraq

    Kurdish women living in Iran face discrimination for their ethnicity as well as their gender. The photographer Keiwan Fatehi spoke to those who left their homeland claiming oppression, lack of rights or fear for their safety and joined the peshmerga military• Fatehi is an Iranian Kurdish photographer based in Iraq. These images are part of his Gender and national apartheid series with Middle East Images

February 2024

  • ‘I love music that brings joy because it makes me forget a little of the pain of the past’ … Mohammad Syfkhan.

    ‘Music is the language of the world’: how a Syrian refugee became the toast of the Irish folk scene

  • Demonstrators from Sweden’s Alliance Against Nato carry flags of the Kurdistan Workers party (PKK) in Stockholm in June 2023

    ‘Now we are not safe’: Sweden’s Kurds fear Nato deal has sold them out

  • Image obtained Saturday, October 5, 2019 of women buying food at the ?Iraqi market? in Al Hawl camp, Syria. The majority of women still wear full Islamic dress in order to avoid violence or death by still radicalised women. (AAP Image/Tessa Fox) NO ARCHIVING

    Yazidi woman held by IS for 10 years freed by Kurdish fighters in Syria

  • Syrian Democratic Forces fighters take part in a search operation at a refugee camp in north-east Syria on 27 January.

    US-backed Kurdish fighters killed in drone strike on US base in Syria

January 2024

  • Rojek

    Rojek review – unsettlingly intimate portraits of Islamic State militants

    Documentary collects sequence of interviews with prisoners, not all repentant, alongside footage of war-blasted Syrian Kurdistan

November 2023

  • Zana Mamand Mohammad, brother of Twana Mamand, pictured in Ranya, Iraq, in 2021

    ‘Our mother believes Twana is alive somewhere – so I visit different countries looking, just in case’

    Brother of Iraqi teenager lost in Channel crossing seeks UK investigation into drownings

October 2023

  • Donald Trump<br>FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump listens during a phone call with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto about a trade agreement between the United States and Mexico, in the Oval Office of the White House. Trump reshaped Republican foreign policy with his "America First" doctrine, skepticism of NATO and appreciation of autocrats. But Russian's invasion of Ukraine – and the West's united response to it – is emerging as a sudden test of that philosophy.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

    Trump made crude Oval Office remark about fate of Kurds in Syria, book says

    Ex-president interrupted briefing to ask why he should ‘give a fuck’ about Kurds amid US troop withdrawal, Adam Kinzinger writes

September 2023

  • Matt Broomfield

    British journalist held by police at Luton airport for five hours without arrest

  • Placards with the faces of victims of Iran's theocratic regime line the sidewalk during a protest in Washington DC, US, 14 September 2023

    US and UK issue sanctions on Iran one year on from Mahsa Amini’s death

July 2023

  • The UN human rights council

    UN complaint lodged over Turkish airstrikes on hospital in Iraq

    Survivors and witnesses bring case to human rights council over 2021 attack killing eight people
  • Farhad Bandesh and Mostafa Azimitabar, Kurdish-Iranians refugee now living in Australia. They are the subject of the film Freedom is Beautiful by Angus McDonald.

    ‘Love is the answer’: the Kurdish refugees finding art and healing in a country that imprisoned them

    After fleeing their homes in Iran, Mostafa Azimitabar and Farhad Bandesh spent eight years detained by Australia. A new film, Freedom is Beautiful, tracks their journey
  • Golden-hour visuals … Name Me Lawand.

    Name Me Lawand review – empathic and inspiring portrait of deaf Iraqi refugee boy

    This heartfelt documentary shows us the world from the point of view of a migrant whose life was revolutionised by a school for the deaf in the UK

June 2023

  • Salwan Momika holds up a Qur'an while police look on

    Turkish fury as Sweden allows Qur’an burning risks further delays to Nato bid

    Foreign minister condemns ‘vile protest’ outside Stockholm mosque ahead of meeting in Brussels to discuss application

May 2023

  • Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addresses supporters after his election win

    The Guardian view on Erdoğan’s victory: a triumph for polarisation, not unity

  • Composite of Behrouz Boochani with men in detention on Manus Island

    Ten years of Guardian Australia
    Behrouz Boochani, the refugee writer who exposed the cruelty of Australia’s island jail

  • As voters in Turkey prepare to go to the polls, anger over the government's response to the earthquakes in February is widespread. More than 50,000 people have died and millions more displaced. But it has happened in a region that has already experienced years of discrimination under President Erdoğan.The Guardian's video team joined Yeter Erel Tuma who works with children living in a Kurdish majority province. She has witnessed the civil unrest impacting families here, and now volunteers bringing aid to those devastated by the earthquake.

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    On the ground
    The forgotten earthquake survivors that could decide Erdogan’s fate – video

  • The mosque of Al-Nabi Yunus, since destroyed by Islamic State.

    Lost treasures and ancient ruins: Anthony Kersting’s Middle East – in pictures

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