The Kurdish-led administration of northeast Syria (Rojava) on Tuesday condemned as unjustifiable under any pretext the ...

Iran's ethnic minorities, comprising nearly 50% of the population, could prove decisive in ongoing anti-regime protests as ...

SAMAQA, Iraq, Nov 3 (Reuters) - When Islamic State insurgents fired mortar bombs at Iranian Kurdish women fighters holding a desert position in northern Iraq, the women first hit back by singing ...

Coming from the self-proclaimed autonomous region of Rojava, wedged between the Turkish border and territory held by Islamic State, Mustafa enjoys freedoms that few women living under the militants' ...

The Women’s Assembly of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party issued a written statement condemning the approval of a death sentence for Kurdish activist and labor rights ...

LONDON — Time has played a funny role in Leyla Uysal’s life, the founder of the watch brand Bajer. She has often found herself at the wrong place at the right time, which is how she accidentally ended ...

“The model we aim to develop is neither a woman dissolved within the man nor a structure that is entirely anti-male. On the contrary, it necessitates a framework that secures both her freedom and a ...

A Diyarbakır court has ordered the banning and confiscation of the book The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice, written by American journalist and author Gayle Tzemach ...

Celebration of the International Women’s Day in Rojava in 2021. (Photo courtesy of the Rojava Information Center) In 2021, 500 years after the Spanish conquest of the Indigenous communities in what is ...

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nubohar Mustafa is proud of what her leaders and fellow activists have done for Kurdish women in northern Syria. Coming from the self-proclaimed autonomous ...