In the first four days of Mordad 1404 (July 23–26, 2025), at least five Kolbars were either killed or injured in the border regions of Kurdistan as a result of direct gunfire or physical assault by border regiment forces.
According to Kolbarnews, two Kolbars were killed and three others injured in separate incidents.
On Saturday, July 26, Barzan Salehi, a 38-year-old Kolbar from the village of Khuri-Ava in Baneh, married and father of three, was shot and killed by border forces in the HangeJal border area.
Earlier, on Wednesday, July 23, two other Kolbars were targeted by border forces in the Hawraman region. Amin Gerdi, approximately 40 years old, from Kani Tamarkhan village and father of one, was shot and killed in the Teteh area.
That same day, another Kolbar named Ata, 23 years old and from Hawraman, was shot in the leg in the Zhalaneh area, then brutally beaten, resulting in fractures and severe head injuries.
Later that evening, border guards opened fire on a group of Kolbars in the Marivan border area, injuring two: Rasoul Fathi, was shot in the lower back, and Danial Salehi, 24, from the village of Doplureh.
Both were transferred to Marivan Hospital for treatment.
According to statistics recorded by Kolbarnews, in the year 1403, a total of 183 Kolbars were killed or injured in the border areas and inter-road routes of West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Kermanshah provinces due to factors such as direct shooting by regime military forces, avalanches and hypothermia, landmine explosions, falls from mountains and heights, and other incidents.Out of this total, 52 Kolbars (28%) were killed, and 131 Kolbars (72%) were injured. Among the 183 Kolbars who were killed or injured in 1403, 143 cases (78%) resulted from direct shootings by regime military forces.Additionally, among the 183 kulbars affected, 11 (6%) were child Kolbars under the age of 18. One of these cases resulted in the death of a child Kolbar due to hypothermia.
