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This handout photo provided by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official website via SEPAH News shows Iranian Revolutionary Guard soldiers taking part in a military drill near the island of Abu Musa, off the coast of the southern Iranian city of Bandar Lengeh (SEPAH NEWS / AFP)
June 30, 2026, 2:03 pm
2 IRGC members shot dead at home in Iran, in what state media calls ‘terrorism’
IRGC outlet says ‘anti-government and separatist’ agents were killed in an operation after attack; separately, state TV accuses ‘Zionist-American mercenaries’ of killing couple in their car
By AFP
Illustrative: A militiaman of the Kurdistan Freedom Party, an Iranian Kurdish opposition group, stands behind his truck-mounted machine gun near the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, September 5, 2016. (Balint Szlanko/AP)
March 4, 2026, 8:22 am
US in talks with Iranian Kurds on potential CIA-backed op for uprising – sources
Groups have asked for support; plan would be to take on Iran’s security forces in west of country, enabling citizen revolt against regime
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Fighters with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) line up to put their weapons into a pit during a ceremony in Sulaimaniyah, in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on July 11, 2025. (Shwan MOHAMMED / AFP)
July 12, 2025, 12:52 pm
Kurdish PKK fighters burn their weapons at disarmament ceremony in Iraq
Erdogan hails symbolic destruction of arms as step toward ‘terror-free Turkey’; top PKK fighter says jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan must be set free for rapprochement to work
By Rouba El Husseini and HAZEL WARD
A handout picture provided by the Iranian Presidency shows Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian speaking during a televised interview in the capital of Tehran on August 31, 2024. (HANDOUT / Iranian Presidency / AFP)
September 8, 2024, 4:17 pm
Iran’s president to travel to Iraq in first trip abroad
Pezeshkian to sign memorandum of understanding on ‘cooperation and security’ that was meant to be signed by his predecessor, Raisi
By AFP
Sineor, a 17-month-old Yazidi child who died during an attempt at life-saving surgery in Israel. (Courtesy Shevet Achim)
December 9, 2022, 3:03 pm
Body of Yazidi child who died during surgery refused passage at Ben Gurion
Toddler being taken across land border to Jordan after death in Jerusalem hospital; mother forced to return to Iraq without his remains
By Lazar Berman
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani in Tehran, Iran, November 29, 2022. (Iranian president's office)
November 29, 2022, 6:39 pm
Iranian president, Iraqi PM vow to jointly fight ‘terror’ after cross-border strikes
Mohammed Shia al-Sudani says Baghdad won’t let anyone ‘use Iraqi territory to undermine and disrupt Iran’s security,’ as Tehran accuses Kurdish opposition groups of fueling unrest
By AFP
Iranians demonstrating against he Islamic regime in the city of Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, November 19, 2022. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 19, 2022, 5:04 pm
Iranian authorities kill 3 protesters in Mahsa Amini’s home province
Death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman while in custody of morality police in September has sparked months-long wave of demonstrations
By AFP
People gather with Kurdish flags during a demonstration denouncing the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini -- who died while in the custody of Iranian authorities -- by Iraqi and Iranian Kurds outside the UN offices in Erbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on September 24, 2022. (SAFIN HAMED / AFP)
September 30, 2022, 10:13 pm
Kurdish exiles back Iran protests but deny orchestrating unrest
Tehran has accused dissidents who fled of fomenting protests following death of Iranian Kurd Mahsa Amini, but groups insist demonstrations being organized locally
By SALAR SALIM
A house damaged by an Iranian ballistic missile attack is seen in Erbil, Iraq, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/ Ahmed Mzoori, Metrography)
September 28, 2022, 3:53 pm
7 killed, 28 wounded in Iran strikes on Iraqi Kurdistan, health ministry says
Iranian military fires missiles and drones in cross-border attack after Kurdish Iranian woman was killed by morality police, sparking nationwide protests
By AFP
Iraqis attend a conference of peace and reclamation organized by US think tank Center for Peace Communications in Erbil, the capital of northern Iraq's Kurdistan autonomous region, on September 24, 2021. (Safin Hamed/AFP)
September 30, 2021, 12:53 pm
After death threats, Iraqis who attended pro-Israel normalization summit recant
Speaker says he didn’t mean to call for peace with Israel, others say they were misled about conference’s content; pro-Iran militia says normalizers are ‘legitimate targets’
By Aaron Boxerman
Photo illustration showing the tomb of Nahum during restoration work in 2018. (Photo courtesy Adam Tiffen; illustration by Joshua Davidovich/Times of Israel)
September 15, 2021, 1:59 pm
Saving Iraq’s Tomb of Nahum, a secret mission resurrects Kurdistan’s Jewish past
With IS just miles away, a US army vet, 2 Israeli engineers and the head of a preservation group carried out an audacious plan to restore an ancient shrine of the biblical prophet
By Tal Schneider
Fighters of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) take part in a military parade in the US-protected Al-Omar oil field in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor on March 23, 2021, marking the second annual anniversary of Baghouz's liberation from the Islamic State (IS) group. (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
March 23, 2021, 7:46 pm
Islamic State still a threat, Kurds warn two years after ‘caliphate’ falls
Syrian Democratic Forces say efforts to combat jihadists today ‘more difficult and more dangerous’ since their expulsion into Syria’s vast desert
By Delil Soleiman
Alexanda Amon Kotey, left, and El Shafee Elsheikh, who were allegedly among four British jihadis who made up a brutal Islamic State cell dubbed "The Beatles," at a security center in Kobani, Syria, March 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
October 7, 2020, 4:41 pm
US to announce charges against British IS members
Justice Department alleges men are guilty of holding captive and beheading approximately 2 dozen hostages and of using ‘exceptionally cruel torture methods’ on captives
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative photo: A militiaman of the Kurdistan Freedom Party, an Iranian Kurdish opposition group, stands behind his truck-mounted machine gun near the Iraqi city of Kirkuk on September 5, 2016. (AP/Balint Szlanko)
July 16, 2020, 11:51 am
Two killed in ‘counterrevolutionary’ attack in western Iran
Revolutionary Guards says civilian, local official and Basij militiaman attacked while helping locals deal with pandemic in restive Kurdish region
By AFP
The exterior of Shanidar Cave in northern Iraq in 2005 (CC BY JosephV/Wikimedia Commons)
February 20, 2020, 6:21 pm
New evidence points to Neanderthal burial rituals
Skeletal remains found in Iraqi cave give credence to theory that humans’ ancient relatives interred their dead, and even left flowers by their side
By ToI Staff
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