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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GENERAL HUSSEIN Yazdanpanah of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) in front of PAK troops. (photo credit: Courtesy PAK) The Office ...

Rojava is the name given to the part of this fragmented geography that lies within Syria. In Kurdish, it means ‘west’. If our ...

The Kurdish rebels of Rojava, the northeastern region of Syria, promised a type of revolution that had never been done before. Rather than trying to break the country into ethnic states, they would ...

Authorities in northeastern Syria (Rojava) say hundreds of detainees are set to be released soon as part of the ongoing ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) said late Wednesday that 35 of its members remain in ...

NSVH reported that the failure to provide an option to register as Kurdish, which was flagged during field monitoring, has ...

At a time when we are trying to heal the deep wounds and bleeding relationship between Turks and Kurds left from the 20th century, stop reopening those wounds and deepening the pain. There was a ...

Between devastating natural disasters and relentless attacks by Assad and Erdogan, the Kurds of Syria face threats from all sides. A damaged home in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo.(Mauricio ...

This significant shift follows a series of major setbacks for the Kurdish-led group in recent weeks. The religiously and ethnically diverse SDF suffered a substantial defeat over the weekend when ...