"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 ...

Women are a major component of the Kurdish militias in northern Syria, fighting under their own flag and with independent, female commanders. The YPJ’s statement about Hemo’s attack compared her to ...

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 ...

The Kurdish women fighters (Women’s Protection Unit, YPJ) of Rojava (the self-proclaimed Kurdish autonomy region in northern Syria) and the women’s guerrilla units (YJA-Star) of the Kurdistan Workers ...

Actress Melisa Sözen has been questioned by authorities over her portrayal of a character linked to the Syrian Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) in the French TV series Le Bureau des Légendes.

Kurdish-Iranian documentarian Negin Ahmadi gathered unique frontline insights into the lives of female soldiers in the civil war in Syria in 2016. For her newly released film, Dream's Gate, she ...

TIL KOCHER, Syria (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Every night before 27-year-old Arin goes to bed, she hangs her Makarov, a Russian semi-automatic pistol, from a steel coat rack by the entrance to her ...

Hulu’s No Man’s Land tells the story of the Syrian civil war through the eyes of Antoine, a young French man, in search for his estranged, presumed-to-be-dead sister. While unraveling the mystery, ...

QAMISHLI, Syria (Reuters) - Thousands of women rallied in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on Monday to demand the new Islamist rulers in Damascus respect women's rights and to condemn Turkish ...

A female Kurdish fighter carried out what appeared to be a suicide bombing attack on the Turkish military in Syria, destroying a tank and killing several Turkish soldiers with a grenade, Kurdish ...