A video of a Kurdish YPJ (Women’s Protection Unit) sniper almost getting shot in the face while fighting in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa is going viral and not because it’s like two centimeters away ...

An astonishing video showing a Kurdish sniper laughing after a bullet fired by an ISIS terrorist narrowly misses her head has emerged online. The YPJ (Women’s Protection Units) sharpshooter is seen ...

(RNS) — 'This was a movement with religious freedom and multiethnic governance with women at the center,' said the book's author, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. (RNS) — The Syrian border town of Kobani was ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A leading international rights group on Wednesday accused Syria's main Kurdish militia of continued violations of the ban on child soldiers, despite some progress to stop using boys and ...

Groups of female Kurdish fighters, known as Women's Protection Units, have been fighting on the front lines against ISIS for years. While they have been glamorized by Western media, little is known ...

KOBANI, Syria (AP) — On the front lines of the battle for Kobani, Kurdish female fighters have been playing a major role in helping defend the Syrian town from an onslaught by the Islamic State ...

A British woman fighting in an all-female Kurdish militia was killed in Syria earlier this month, her Kurdish commanders have said. Anna Campbell, 26, from Lewes in East Sussex, was volunteering with ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Kurdish forces in Syria said on Friday one of their fighters was mutilated by Turkey-backed rebels, referencing a video circulating on social media. Turkey launched an air and ...

A British woman has died fighting alongside an all-female Kurdish militant group in Syria. Anna Campbell, a qualified plumber from east Sussex, was 26. She is the first British woman to die fighting ...

One of the most fascinating aspects of my recent trip to Rojava, the Kurdish region of Syria, was its leaders’ focus on empowering women. The failure of many Mideast nations to let women play a major ...

BEIRUT – A leading international rights group on Wednesday accused Syria's main Kurdish militia of continued violations of the ban on child soldiers, despite some progress to stop using boys and girls ...