Thousands of Kurds gathered in Syria's Afrin Saturday to mourn fighters and civilians killed in a blistering Turkish assault on the region -- including female combattant Barin Kobani. But there was no ...

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 ...

In early 2016, the first time a friend told Gayle Tzemach Lemmon the story of Kurdish Women’s Projection Units in northeastern Syria – also known as the YPJ – she had two reactions. The first was ...

Barely out of their teens, these are the Syrian female soldiers fighting against IS. Brave and battle-hardened, they have a strong feminist spirit that is rare among other cultures in this region.

KOBANI, Syria — 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 extremist ...

Kurdish female fighters have celebrated in Raqqa this week after the defeat of ISIS militants, whose brutal rule over the city has come to an end after almost four years. Kurdish female fighters have ...

The coffins contained the bodies of fighters from the Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) ― the all-female brigade that fights alongside the leftist People's Protection Unit (YPG, which includes ...

The YPJ, also known as the Women's Protection Unit, has come under increased attack from Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria and is currently involved in the fight for the key border town of Kobane ...

Dozens have been killed in recent days in an escalating battle between militants from Islamic State—the group more commonly known as ISIS—and Kurdish defenders in the Syrian border town of Kobani, ...

For the women who have given more than five years of their lives and lost close to 1,000 of their friends to the fight against the Islamic State, the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi meant a ...