By Orhan Qereman QAMISHLI, Syria, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Female Kurdish fighters who became global symbols of the fight against ...

Damascus draws a firm line on integrating the all-female Kurdish force into the Syrian national army, in a decision that ...

Will the women who played such a heroic and key role in defeating ISIS receive new roles in Syria's new security force, or be left behind?

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 ...

Three young Kurdish women pose with their weapons at a road checkpoint in the city of Al-Malikiyah, in the far northeast of Syria near the Iraqi border. All photos by Benjamin Hiller Avesta, a female ...

Friends and comrades of Ghazal Molan, a 19-year-old Peshmerga from Mahabad opposed to the Islamic Republic, laid her to rest on Thursday afternoon in Sulaymaniyah, in the Kurdistan Region, amid deep ...

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 ...

The Kurdish YPG militia in Syria is well known for its large numbers of female fighters A short boat trip across the river Tigris takes you from Iraq into northern Syria. Both sides of this frontier ...

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 ...

When Iraq’s female cycling team snatched bronze and silver medals at a landmark pan-Arab race, it was thanks to athletes from the autonomous Kurdish region. The country’s toughest female competitors, ...