A British woman volunteer with the all-female Kurdish armed unit the YPJ has been killed in Syria, her father has told the BBC. It is understood Anna Campbell, 26, from Lewes in East Sussex ...

They are coming for us," he says. A US soldier pictured with the insignia of the Kurdish YPJ militia on his sleeve As US troops withdrew from Qamishli last week on Donald Trump's orders ...

The new Kurdish assertiveness is evident not only in Iraq but also in Syria, where the YPJ, a Kurdish militia, has partnered with the U.S. military to fight the Islamic State (ISIS), Turkey ...

Residents of Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region are going to the polls in long-awaited parliamentary elections under the shadow of ongoing rivalries, economic instability ...

A US solider wore a patch associated with the women's forces of the Kurdish People's Protection Unit, or YPJ, as US forces withdrew from northeastern Syria on Sunday. A photo of the soldier ...

The salience of Kurdish political, social, economic and cultural developments for the Middle East and for wider geopolitics is being increasingly reflected in the upsurge of research in this area.

KAWAGUCHI, Saitama Prefecture--Hate speech has again reared its ugly head, in this case against the Kurdish community living close to Tokyo. It follows an altogether familiar pattern: phone calls ...

In March 2019, Syrian Kurdish female fighter Cicek Mustafa Zibo celebrated as the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces announced the total territorial defeat of Isis. Her thousands-strong, all ...

In the aftermath of the ruling, Kurdish officials said a preliminary deal has been reached with Baghdad, which will approach Turkey to resume oil imports from the KRG. However, no such request by ...

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Two leading members of the Turkish parliament from the country’s pro-Kurdish party said on Monday any resolution to the Kurdish question must begin with ending the isolation of imprisoned ...