Senior leaders in Iraq's Kurdistan Region have publicly discussed efforts to facilitate peace talks between Iran and Iranian Kurdish armed opposition groups based in the autonomous region.
In an interview with VOA’s Kurdish Service, Chris Van Hollen, a Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, talks about how the US is approaching the situation in Iran.
Local elections in Turkey will be held Sunday. As voters head to the polls, they will be deciding on leadership positions in 81 provinces. VOA's reporters from Turkish Service and Kurdish Service talked to locals in different parts of the country and filed this report narrated by Bezhan Hamdard.
Protests began mostly peacefully over corruption and poor conditions but turned violent as security forces tried to prevent people from gathering
Protesters set fire to the offices of the ruling party Monday in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region amid widespread protests over unpaid salaries and suspected corruption.
