Around seven ethnic Armenian fighters from the YPJ (Women’s Defense Unit) sit quietly on sofas around me, smiling gently when ...

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

Around 500 fighters from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) withdrew from the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Friday as part of a negotiated agreement with the country’s ...

Actress Melisa Sözen has been questioned by authorities over her portrayal of a character linked to the Syrian Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) in the French TV series Le Bureau des Légendes.

The Kurdish land grab is why the Syrian tribes are attacking the SDF. Over 440 people have been killed since December in fighting in the area. The Kurdish militias are the SDF, YPG, and YPJ.

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

The Kurdish militia said that its all-women unit had rescued an ISIS sex slave from the Al Hol camp. Watch the full video to know more about the SDF's women commandos who have played a key role in ...

Photo: Social media Click to read the article in Turkish Two airstrikes targeted Kurdish forces in Syria's north within three days. While Turkey has yet to release an official statement on the matter, ...

Five years ago, Kurdish female guerrilla fighters with the YPJ militia chanted the slogan during the Kurdish-led Rojava revolution in northern Syria that began in 2012.

Kurdish Syrian women take part in Women’s Day celebration in Syria’s northeastern city of Qamishli on March 6, 2021. DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images ...

Zeynab Serekaniye was not a hardened soldier. The 26-year-old joined the all-female, Kurdish-led Women’s Protection Units, or YPJ, just nine months ago.

The women of the YPJ, a Syrian-Kurdish force, fought alongside their male counterparts and face-to-face against ISIS. Author and journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon spent years reporting on their stories.