The movement in Rojava (north-east Syria) inspired by Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), is carrying out a unique experiment in the Middle East. It defends ...

A young Kurdish woman called “Rehana” has garnered a great deal of media attention over the past few days, after reports emerged claiming she had killed more than 100 Islamic State (IS) fighters ― ...

The Turkish military offensive against Kurdish militias in the Afrin area of northern Syria has put Turkey and the United States in the tense position of fighting with and against the same ally: the ...

While dodging severe thunderstorms and tornadoes here in Oklahoma, Syrian Kurdish women’s rights activist Senam Mohamad spoke of the ISIS storms brewing in the Middle East at the University of Central ...

(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 ...

A Kurdish demonstrator holds a flag during a protest demanding the release of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, in Sulaimaniyah (Reuters) - Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish ...

There are 7,000 volunteer soldiers in the Women's Protection Unit, or YPJ, which fights alongside the Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Syria. In August, photojournalist Erin Trieb traveled there to meet ...

A wind of change is blowing through Iran. This wind picked up after the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini, the young Kurdish woman who was arrested by the Iranian morality police because a few strands of her ...

A 10-year-old boy is fatally wounded in a Turkish airstrike in Syria near the Turkish border on Oct. 10, 2019. (SDF photo) Athens — On October 9, with a “nod” from President Trump – given via Twitter ...

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A female Kurdish fighter carried out what appeared to be a suicide bombing attack on the Turkish military in Syria, destroying a tank and killing several Turkish soldiers with a grenade, Kurdish ...