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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

A soldier wearing the Syrian Kurdish Women's Protection Units badge sits on top of a U.S. military vehicle on a road in the town of Tal Tamr on Oct. 20, 2019, after pulling out of their largest base ...

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 ...

A US solider wore the insignia of a Kurdish women's unit on his sleeve as US forces withdrew from northeastern Syria over the weekend. The gesture reflected the anger many military personnel and ...

Much has been written about Donald Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds in Syria. But a recent tweet that showed up in my timeline brought it all home for me in a new way. A statue in Kobani dedicated to the ...