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 ...

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 ...

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. 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 ...

TRNN was granted rare access to a YPJ commander at a hidden base in northeast Syria, offering a ground-level view of a women’s revolution as Rojava was preparing for war.

Text about PKK/PYD's politics by Ben Davies. It has since been pointed out that Davies holds extremely dubious pro-Islamist politics; as such, we… After his accounts of the YPG training camp, Arthur ...

Can you describe the current dynamics of the clashes between Kurdish forces and Syrian government troops, and what are the primary causes of this escalation? On January 6, the territories administered ...

Pakistan was envisioned as a homeland where citizenship would not be determined by faith. Yet, more than seven decades later, that founding promise ...