When the uprising is defeated, Barzani and his forces retreat to Kurdish areas in Iran and align with nationalist fighters under the leadership of Qazi Muhammad. January 1946 – (IRAN ...

The Kurds present themselves as the most natural ally for Israel in this shifting landscape. They are politically aligned, ...

For instance, Baloch fighters who oppose the regime are closer to the Baloch region of Pakistan than they are to the far-off Kurdistan region in Iran, and the Kurds are closer to their comrades ...

Around 500 fighters from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces ... The Kurds are an ethnic group spread across Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and Iran, without a recognized state of their own.

The Russian Empire also vied for control of Iran’s natural resources and occupied Iranian territory. In the mid-1940s, the Soviet Union supported short-lived ethnic Kurdish and Azeri republics ...