What we are seeing today in part of the current Coalition of Political Forces of Iranian Kurdistan is no longer just a tactical slip or simply a sign that they cannot understand the real balance of forces. Organizations such as PJAK, PAK, and Khabat had been waiting for foreign intervention and for a chance to play on the borderlines for years. The others are no better, and these parties follow the right-wing and far-right horizon in Kurdistan and welcome war conditions. What we are (…)

On the morning of March 2, 2026, as Yanar Mohammed was leaving her home in Baghdad's Al-Bunouk district, she was targeted in an armed attack. Two assailants on a motorcycle fired several shots at close range. Although she was immediately transferred to the hospital, the severity of the wounds to her head and chest prevented doctors from saving her life. ----------------- Yanar Mohammed: A life of Courage, a Legacy of resistance The assassination of Yanar Mohammed on March 2, 2026, in (…)

Mood among some in Iran shifts from hope of being rescued to dismay at destruction of infrastructure, culture and lives Smoke rising in Tehran. One person in the capital said they had experienced ‘something resembling the idea of carpet bombing'. Photograph: Majid Saeedi/Getty Images After years of arrests, disappearances and mass killings of protesters, the hatred in Iran from some quarters for the hardline, oppressive governing regime had boiled into such a desperate rage that many (…)