FILE: Young Syrian-Kurdish women take part in a training session organized by the Kurdish Women’s Defense Units (YPJ) on August 28, 2013. BENJAMIN HILLER/AFP/Getty Images ...

A video of a Kurdish YPJ (Women’s Protection Unit) sniper almost getting shot in the face while fighting in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa is going viral and not because it’s like two ...

Home; World News; in depth YPJ: The Kurdish feminists fighting Islamic State . All-female militia is protecting the Kurdish population from militants – as well as challenging gender roles ...

“Kurdish women when they get married, they give up life,” she said, speaking in the excellent English she learned from watching old American movies. “I didn’t like this idea.” ...

On October 27, rumors began to spread on social media that a Kurdish female fighter known by the pseudonym Rehana may have been beheaded by Islamic State (IS) militants in Kobani.

The all-female Syrian Kurdish fighting force, the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), achieved worldwide fame in 2014 as they began to win a series of unlikely victories against ISIS, launching an ...

The Middle East is undergoing a profound geopolitical transformation. Authoritarian regimes, long sustained by religious ...

After the Syrian war began in 2011, Berlin-based photographer Sonja Hamad saw many images of Kurdish female fighters ... Dijlin fights for the YPJ which, with its male counterpart the YPG, ...

Exclusive: 28-year-old Kimmie Taylor is the only British woman on the front line against Isis in Syria. In a lull in fighting, The Independent asked whether she still thinks the fight is worth it ...

Kurdish female fighters of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPJ) are seen in training at a military camp in Malikiya, Hassaka province December 9, 2013.

U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish forces said on Thursday that Turkish attacks had killed eight people in an escalation prompted by a bomb attack in Ankara claimed by Kurdish militants.