The international organization has picked Iran’s Sanandaj as a creative city in the field of music. Located in the west of Iran, the city is considered the birthplace of the Daf instrument, which has ...

Security forces with heavy weapons roam the streets of Sanandaj, the provincial capital of Iran’s Kurdistan region, in armored vehicles. They fire into the homes of terrified residents ...

Large numbers of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have been participating in the crackdown in addition to local police, say activists in Sanandaj, who accuse authorities of lashing back ...

Iran’s security forces shot at protesters and used tear gas in the Kurdish cities of Sanandaj and Saqez in fresh protests on Saturday afternoon, as weeks of nationwide demonstrations gathered ...

Iran’s western Kurdish region has become one of the major flashpoints in the unrest because Amini was from Saghez, about 190 kilometers (118.06 miles) north of Sanandaj. Iran’s Kurdish ...

“The Iranian authorities have unleashed alarming violence against protesters in Sanandaj since September,” said Tara Sepehri Far, senior Iran researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Both the ...

Image A still image taken from a video showed Iranian women cheering and waving their hijabs above their heads in a street in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan province, in September ...