ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has submitted a list of about 70 commanders to the ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) will integrate into the new Syrian army as three distinct ...

The movement in Rojava (north-east Syria) inspired by Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), is carrying out a unique experiment in the Middle East. It defends ...

US special envoy calls for lifting Syria sanctions, but concerns grow over ongoing sectarian violence and the treatment of ...

"Today, all women in the Jazira region, including Kurds, Arabs, and Syriacs, are uniting their voices, saying yes to supporting the Women's Protection Units, YPJ. Yes to preserving the rights and ...

The Turkish military offensive against Kurdish militias in the Afrin area of northern Syria has put Turkey and the United States in the tense position of fighting with and against the same ally: the ...

(RNS) — 'This was a movement with religious freedom and multiethnic governance with women at the center,' said the book's author, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. (RNS) — The Syrian border town of Kobani was ...

Viyan Peyman, who fought with the YPG/YPJ, a secular Kurdish groups battling ISIS in Syria, was killed in a small arms battle with the terrorist group. Peyman wasn't just a fighter. She was a poet and ...

A 10-year-old boy is fatally wounded in a Turkish airstrike in Syria near the Turkish border on Oct. 10, 2019. (SDF photo) Athens — On October 9, with a “nod” from President Trump – given via Twitter ...

Rojava, the Kurdish-majority liberated zone in northern Syria, is the location of a unique experiment in grassroots, participatory democracy. It is undergoing a profound social revolution that ...