Tekoshin stands on a mountain in north Iraq with a rifle slung over her shoulder and a grenade tucked into her belt, facing jihadists in “a struggle to liberate women”. Women have been fighting ...

Ghazal Molan, the youngest woman in the Kurdish Peshmerga ranks, has died after being wounded in an alleged Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) drone strike in northern Iraq. The ...

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Three female Kurdish political activists have been killed in fighting in a curfew-hit town in southeast Turkey as the authorities press an offensive against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), ...