WASHINGTON DC—The women fighters of the Peoples Protection Units (YPG) and a Kurdish Yezidi parliamentarian were chosen by CNN this week as the most inspiring women of 2014. “The female fighters have ...

An elite group of Kurdish women in Northern Iraq are training to be peshmerga, as the self-ruled region’s militia is known, declaring they are ready to fight on the frontline. (July 4) Some Kurdish ...

(AP) The photograph shows a young woman in guerrilla fatigues, long hair tied back, toting a machine gun. She stands next to Abdullah Ocalan, the feared leader of Turkey’s separatist Kurd militants ...

A drone attack, likely carried out by Iran or an Iranian-backed militia, killed a Kurdish woman in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq on April 14. According to the local Rudaw media, “a young ...

QAMISHLI, Syria — 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 ...

A prominent female Kurdish commander who has been credited with saving American soldiers in the fight against ISIS in Syria has been killed by a Turkish drone strike, the US military said. Salwa Yusuk ...

Visit Films has picked up worldwide sales rights for Iranian director Negin Ahmadi’s documentary “Dream’s Gate,” which depicts an all-female Kurdish militia, ahead of its Berlin Film Festival world ...

TUTAKAL, Iraq (Reuters) - Amena practiced female genital mutilation in her remote village in Iraqi Kurdistan for so many years that she struggles to recall how many girls passed through her hands. "I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A renowned female commander of the Kurdish opposition forces in Syria, credited by the U.S. military with saving American lives in ...

A renowned female commander of the Kurdish opposition forces in Syria, credited by the U.S. military with saving American lives in the battle against ISIS, has been killed by a Turkish drone strike, ...