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 ...

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 ...

Hulu’s upcoming drama, “No Man’s Land,” tells the story of the all-female militia that fought in the Syrian civil war against ISIS. Called the YPJ, or Women’s Protection Units, co-creators Maria ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has submitted a list of about 70 commanders to 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 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 ― ...

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 ...

"Today, all women in the Jazira region, including Kurds, Arabs, and Syriacs, are uniting their voices, saying yes to supporting the Women's Protection Units, YPJ. Yes to preserving the rights and ...

Viyan Peyman, who fought with the YPG/YPJ, a secular Kurdish groups battling ISIS in Syria, was killed in a small arms battle with the terrorist group. Peyman wasn't just a fighter. She was a poet and ...

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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 ...

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 ...