Most fled during brutal crackdowns, making harrowing escapes using safe houses and even swimming winter rivers to cross the border and join ...

Photographer Valentina Sinis was given rare access to an all-female Kurdish battalion living and training inside hidden ...

Rojava is the name given to the part of this fragmented geography that lies within Syria. In Kurdish, it means ‘west’. If our ...

Across global demonstrations and in thousands of videos posted online, Kurdish women and their allies have begun braiding their hair in honor of a female Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces fighter ...

PJAK, which has been fighting the Iranian regime from a network of hidden bases since it was founded in 2004, embodies the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The YPJ was part of a Kurdish-led military alliance backed by the US and UK in the war against IS - AFP An all-female Kurdish ...

The Women’s Assembly of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party issued a written statement condemning the approval of a death sentence for Kurdish activist and labor rights ...

SAMAQA, Iraq, Nov 3 (Reuters) - When Islamic State insurgents fired mortar bombs at Iranian Kurdish women fighters holding a desert position in northern Iraq, the women first hit back by singing ...

Seven women swathed in chadors, their eyes barely visible through netted apertures, stride purposefully toward seven marble headstones in a forest clearing. A lone woman in traditional Kurdish garb ...

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nubohar Mustafa is proud of what her leaders and fellow activists have done for Kurdish women in northern Syria. Coming from the self-proclaimed autonomous ...