On 2 March this year, Yanar Mohammed, a prominent feminist figure in Iraq, was shot dead outside her home by two gunmen – the latest in a string of activists killed, likely by units of the Popular ...

Thousands of Kurds gathered in Syria’s Afrin Saturday to mourn fighters and civilians killed in a blistering Turkish assault on the region — including female combattant Barin Kobani. But there was no ...

KOBANI, Syria – As the battle for the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin raged earlier this year, amid Turkey’s eventually successful “Operation Olive Branch” to seize control from the Kurdish-led ...

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 ...

Thousands of Kurds from across Europe marched through Paris on Saturday calling for justice on the third anniversary of the killing of three female Kurdish rebels in the French capital. Organisers ...

Attention has turned to implementation after parliament approved a framework law on the Kurdish peace process by a wide majority, raising questions over the legal and political steps that will guide ...

In Syria's first post-Assad parliament, women lawmakers stand out more for their diversity than their numbers: a famous ...

2002-11-21 04:00:00 PDT Barzan, Iraq-- Like many women in this Kurdish mountain village, Qazal Bashir works the fields, herds animals, builds houses and is her family's main provider. Bashir and other ...

Celebration of the International Women’s Day in Rojava in 2021. (Photo courtesy of the Rojava Information Center) In 2021, 500 years after the Spanish conquest of the Indigenous communities in what is ...

MALIKIYA, Syria (Reuters) - Like her five sisters before her, Ahin left school to help her mother at home. Now she's training to fight. At a remote Kurdish militia base on the grassy rolling hills ...