A Kurdish student was killed during overnight clashes between the new Syrian authorities and armed groups loyal to former president Bashar al-Assad, a family member told Rudaw on Friday.

Iran’s Supreme Court has rejected Pakhshan Azizi’s request for a retrial, placing the Kurdish humanitarian worker at imminent risk of execution, her lawyer said on Thursday.

Protests have rocked Iran since the September 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in police custody, three days after she was arrested by the morality police in Tehran for allegedly violating ...