The United States is offering a rare $1 million reward for information leading to the safe return of a former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who vanished in Iran five years ago and is believed to be held hostage in the area.
In an interview with the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA) on March 2, Mohammad Atarodian, the head of the High Center for the Employers Trade Association, claimed that due to continued recession in productive facilities, the unemployment…
One of the dismissed workers of Kurdistan Textile Factory committed suicide due to" unemployment and poverty".
Shirin Khosravani, an Iranian journalist, has begun serving her six-year jail term for charges of "assembly and collusion against national security and propaganda against the regime."
Iran's Parliament has passed Article 22 of the controversial family protection act requiring the registration of temporary marriages. The article has been amended however to make registration of temporary marriages only obligatory in…
More than 10 female students at Iran University of Science and Technology (Elm va Sanat) have been suspended from their classes for "failure to adhere to the Islamic dress code."
Iranian human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani has been sentenced to 18 years in prison, according to his wife. Masoumeh Dehghan added that her husband has been banned from practicing law for 20 years.
Heavy fighting broke out late Sunday night between forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and rebels. According to activists, they launched small attacks on the military in the north, south and east of the country to relieve…
As the number of deaths in Syria continues to grow, the international community can't formulate a practical decision on military intervention, the establishment of security zones for civilians fleeing from violence, or even the dispatching…
The United Nations has asked the football world governing body, FIFA, to overturn a ban on female players wearing the hijab -- the Islamic headscarf -- in matches.
Kurdistan Press Agency
