At a military base in northeast Syria, Roksan Mohammed recalled joining the battle against Islamic State group jihadists. "We ...

The future is uncertain for Syrian Kurd's all-women fighting units, known as the Women's Protection Units (YPJ). Last month the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) they are a part of made a ...

They were established in 2013 and have since then been advocating for gender equality and a greater role for women in society ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DEMONSTRATORS HOLD a placard featuring a braided hair as a symbolic act of resistance and solidarity with Kurdish women in Syria, ...

On International Mother Language Day, Prime Minister Masrour Barzani reaffirmed the Kurdistan Regional Government’s commitment to supporting Kurdish and other languages in the region.

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 ...

Roksan Mohammed, spokesperson for the YPJ, told AFP that her all-women unit made heavy sacrifices during the war against ISIS, which was territorially defeated in Syria in 2019 by the Kurdish-led ...

LONDON — Time has played a funny role in Leyla Uysal’s life, the founder of the watch brand Bajer. She has often found herself at the wrong place at the right time, which is how she accidentally ended ...

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 ...

Dozens of women gather in Erbil, the capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, to braid each other's hair in a show of support, after a Syrian soldier bragged in a video about cutting off a Kurdish ...

A critique of the Left’s unconditional solidarity with ruling Kurdish parties, and a call for class-based solidarity that sides with workers and the alternative project: the democratic citizenship ...

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 ...