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 ...

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 ...

With a parliamentary election in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq scheduled for October 20, interest is growing among major political parties for candidates who are women or members of ethnic and ...

Across global demonstrations and in thousands of videos posted online, Kurdish women and their allies have begun braiding their hair in honor of a female Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighter ...

The Syrian Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) said on Thursday it had discussed with the interior ministry integrating ...

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 ...

What do an Iranian aid worker, a labor activist, a political campaigner, and a protester have in common? All four are women who have been charged in Iran with armed rebellion against the state -- ...

Prosecutors on Saturday opened a probe into a 95-year-old billionaire and honorary head of Koc Holdings, Turkey's biggest conglomerate, over a joke about a Kurdish woman widely denounced as sexist and ...

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 ...

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 ...