Middle East

Jewish settlers launched fierce attacks on the Palestinian village of Bruqin, burning several homes and cars and seizing land.

Groups of Jewish settlers attacked and burned Palestinian homes and vehicles in the town of Bruqin, in the northern West Bank. Local residents reported that hundreds of Jewish settlers burned property, planted Israeli flags, and seized surrounding land in the town. This came after an Israeli settler was shot dead by a Palestinian near the Bruqin settlement.

Thousands of fish migrate in the Tigris river due to thirst and pollution in Diyarbakir, Turkey - 21 May 2025

The Kurdish Language Holiday was celebrated with a march organized by the Mesopotamian Language and Culture Research Association (MED-DER) in Diyarbakir, Turkey. In a press statement issued after the march attended by hundreds of people, the Kurdish language was asked to be granted official status.

Israeli soldiers raided neighborhoods and homes in search of weapons and combat equipment belonging to Palestinians wanted by Israeli intelligence.

While peace talks continue between the leader of the imprisoned Kurdish armed organization Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan and the Turkish state, the two founders of the PKK, Riza Altun and Ali Haydar Kaytan, were commemorated in a ceremony held in Sheikh Said Square in Diyarbakir, attended by thousands of people. It was announced that Kaytan died in 2018, and Altun died in 2019.

Free Iran 2025, International Conference bringing together parliamentarians and political figures from the UK, Canada, Ireland, Malta, Switzerland, Romania, Portugal, and the Netherlands to address the situation in Iran at NCRI office in North of Paris, Auver Sur Oise.

During the operation, Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian wanted by the occupation forces in the Palestinian Authority territories in the town of Balata al-Balad.

This week marks 77th anniversary of the Nakba, a Pro-Palestine protest led by Palestine Solidarity Campaign takes place in Central London, commemorating the violent displacement of an estimated 750,000 Palestinians by Israel in 1948. Tens of thousands of pro-Palestine protesters marched through Westminster.

The Israeli army surrounded a building during a military operation that killed five Palestinians who had barricaded themselves inside. An exchange of fire erupted between Palestinians and the Israeli army, in the town of Tammun, north of the Jordan Valley in the West Bank.

Supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and Franco-Iranian associations organize a rally to demand an end to executions in Iran at the Esplanade des Invalides, Paris, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. Protesters denounce over 1,145 executions since Iranian regime President Massoud Pezeshkian took office in July 2024, chanting against both the mullahs' dictatorship and the fallen monarchy.

Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander returns to Israel. Tens of thousands of people came to watch on the big screens the moments of his return. After that, a rally was held to mark the second birthday of the hostage Gilboa Dalal who remained in Hamas captivity.

Palestinian-Israeli conflict in Nablus, Palestine - 12 May 2025

Palestinian-Israeli conflict in Nablus, Palestine - 11 May 2025

The Girona Manifesto Conference was organized by the Kurdish Pen with the support of the International Pen and the Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality in Diyarbakir in Turkey. About 200 writers and academics discussed the problems of the Kurdish language in Turkey, where the Kurdish language is not officially recognized, and in other countries where Kurdish is spoken at the conference.

Israeli forces raided the city of Nablus and assassinated two Palestinians after surrounding the house where they were holed up and firing rockets at it.

Large mice appeared due to pollution in the Tigris river in Turkey

Dozens of Jewish settlers demonstrated at the Israeli checkpoints surrounding the areas of the Palestinian Authority headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, preventing Palestinians from moving within the PA territory.

This comes 100 days after the dynamic Freedom Gate military operation in the northern West Bank camps, known as Operation Iron Wall.

University and high school socialist students gathered to commemorate the 53rd anniversary of the execution of three student leaders and founders of the People's Liberation Army of Turkey (THKO), Deniz Gezmis, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan on May 6, 1972.

Palestinians stage a protest demanding their release from Israeli prisons in Nablus, Palestine - 6 May 2025

Gypsies living in Turkey celebrate Hidirellez. Gypsies living in Tepecik district of Izmir welcomed spring by jumping over the fire, dancing and wearing colorful clothes. Hidirellez is celebrated as the day on which Prophets Hizir (Al-Khidr) and Ilyas (Elijah) met on earth.

Iranian newspapers during Iran-U.S negotiation in Tehran, Iran -

Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, Honoring and paying tribute to the workers and laborers of Bandar Abbas — the martyrs and the wounded.

People demonstrate against Israel government and demand hostage deal. Among the participants at the rally at Tel Aviv's Hostage Square were former hostages: Omer Shem Tov, Itay Regev, Maya Regev. In addition, parents of the hostages participated and called for a hostage deal at any cost.

Protesters attempted to defy a ban and marched on Taksim Square to celebrate May Day in Istanbul, Turkey.

In order to keep their traditional dresses alive, the 3rd Traditional Kurdish Dresses Festival was held in Zakho city of the Federal Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Various traditional dresses worn by Kurds living in Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran were introduced at the stands opened at the festival held in the city of Zakho on the Turkish-Iraqi border on April 29-30. Famous Kurdish artists and music groups also performed at the festival.

Palestinian-Israeli conflict in Nablus

Daily life in Rasht, Iran - 26 Mar 2025

Israeli forces destroyed the home of a man wanted by the Israeli government.

The two-day festival, which features international Kurdish participation from Turkey, Syria, and Iran, as well as the host country, Iraq, where Kurds reside, aims to showcase the diversity and cultural heritage of Kurds in these countries to the world.

Launch of the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Dubai

Solidarity rally demanding a prisoner exchange deal in Nablus, Palestine - 29 Apr 2025

Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Memorial Mass for the late Pope Francis at the Grand Immaculate Church in Al-Hamdaniya, Iraq - 27 Apr 2025

The weekly demonstration against the Israeli government calling for a deal to release all Hamas hostages in exchange for ending the war, Palestinian

Students from various universities in Ankara were organising a march against the imprisonment of 57 people who were detained in the protests that started with the arrest of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu. After the police did not allow the march, a brawl broke out between the police and the students.

Angry Palestinians chant slogans during the funeral ceremony. Jabour was killed during the clashes with Israeli forces.

Özgür Özel, Chairman of the Republican People's Party (CHP), called for a march on 23 April National Sovereignty and Children's Day in Turkey to protest the arrest of Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and recent political developments, as well as to celebrate the holiday. Although the Governorate of Ankara banned the protest, Özel organised a rally in Ulus Square and marched with the crowd to the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey.

Palestinian doctors and paramedics protest in Nablus, Palestine - 23 Apr 2025

Believers from Ukraine, Georgia, Greece and other countries attended the ceremony for Orthodox Easter Mass at St. George Cathedral, in Fener, Istanbul, celebrated by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeus I

The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeus I celebrated the Easter’s Vigil ceremony at St. George Cathedral, in Fener, Istanbul.

Catholics commemorate the death of Pope Francis in three churches in Istanbul (St. Antoine Church, Santa Maria Draperis and St. Esprit Cathedral).

Daily life in Nablus, Palestine

Iranians and supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) rallied to demand an end to executions and protection for political prisoners on death row. They urged action to prevent the execution of five political prisoners: Mohammad Gholi Gholi, Ahmad Reza Jalali, Hamid Reza Sadeghi, Vahid Moshref, and Seyed Mohsen Sadeghi, linked to the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). This protest in Paris was part of a global campaign across 15 cities in Europe and North America, coinciding with the anniversary of political executions under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's regime, featuring the slogan, Down with the oppressor.

Palestinian-Israeli conflict in Nablus, Palestine - 20 Apr 2025

Easter mass in Al-Hamdaniya also known as Qaraqosh in northern Iraq