"That would give IS an opportunity to attack prisons and free its fighters." YPJ spokesperson Roksana Mohamed wants assurances that women's rights will be protected There is further uncertainty ...

But Bashar al-Assad's regime never recognised it and, despite his fall from power, its future remains uncertain. As well as more than a decade of civil war, the Syrian Kurds have faced years of ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish militant leader jailed by Turkey who called on Thursday for his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to dissolve and all groups to lay down arms, is an influential figure among ...

After the funeral of seven YPG/YPJ fighters whose bodies were brought from Kobane to Turkey in order to be properly buried here, a large crowd gathers in the local headquarters of the pro-Kurdish ...

The YPG has a female counterpart, the YPJ. Turkey sees the YPG as indistinguishable ... in December confirmed for the first time that PKK fighters had come to Syria to support his forces during ...

The snaking tunnels beneath Kobani hold no mysteries for Commander Zanarin Kobani of the YPJ, the women’s unit ... As a female fighter, she is specifically worried that women's rights will ...

The fighters of the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) fearlessly confronted and defeated IS in Kobane — and later in Tal Abyad, Sere Kaniye, Manbij, Tabqa, Raqqa, and Deir ez-Zor. These heroic ...