The Defense Department is drawing up plans to possibly withdraw troops from Syria, prompting questions about whether the U.S. military will be involved.

Businesses in several Kurdish cities in Iran went on strike Wednesday after Kurdish groups called for a protest against the death sentences of two female political prisoners. Six Kurdish groups ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...

The New Organization for Environmental Protection and Women's Rights has launched a widespread awareness campaign to combat female genital mutilation in villages around Halabja, addressing ...

(Beirut) – Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch said today. “Iranian authorities are using the death ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Recent scientific reevaluations of remains have historians rethinking the prevalence of women fighters throughout history.

The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and integrate into a national military force. By Christina Goldbaum A ...

Syrian Kurds accuse Abu Hatem Shaqra of assassinating Kurdish female politician Hevrin Khalaf in October 2019 during Turkey’s latest military offensive against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic ...