A Kurdish demonstrator holds a flag during a protest demanding the release of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, in Sulaimaniyah (Reuters) - Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish ...

QAMISHLI, Syria (Reuters) - Thousands of women rallied in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on Monday to demand the new Islamist rulers in Damascus respect women's rights and to condemn Turkish ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A leading international rights group on Wednesday accused Syria's main Kurdish militia of continued violations of the ban on child soldiers, despite some progress to stop using boys and ...

(RNS) — 'This was a movement with religious freedom and multiethnic governance with women at the center,' said the book's author, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. (RNS) — The Syrian border town of Kobani was ...

The Turkish military offensive against Kurdish militias in the Afrin area of northern Syria has put Turkey and the United States in the tense position of fighting with and against the same ally: the ...

Shamiran Shimon, head of the Syriac Women's Union (SWU) in Syria. Qamishli, Syria -- Shamiran Shimon, head of the Syriac [Assyrian] Women's Union (SWU) in Syria and Vice President of the ...

A soldier wearing the Syrian Kurdish Women's Protection Units badge sits on top of a U.S. military vehicle on a road in the town of Tal Tamr on Oct. 20, 2019, after pulling out of their largest base ...

Turkish-backed terrorists have massacred civilians in Kobanê. Photo: Kurdish Resistance & Liberation/Facebook. The Kurdish town of Kobane in northern Syria was attacked on June 25 by forces from the ...

One year ago, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) began its brutal assault on the city of Kobane in the largely Kurdish region of Rojava in the north of Syria. The violent fanatics were seeking ...

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 grenade, Kurdish ...