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 ...

American support for Syria’s subjugation of “Rojava”—the autonomous Kurdish-led administration in its northeast—is regarded ...

Funerals of 13 YPG/YPJ members were delivered to their families while 11 funerals are still being kept in Mürşitpınar border gate, near Syria. At 11 o’clock in the morning, autopsies were performed on ...

The Middle East could be described as having a faulty track record of women’s empowerment. However, in northeastern Syria, there exists a military group not only comprised entirely of women, but also ...

A 26-year-old British woman who travelled to Syria to fight in an all-female unit had insisted she 'did not regret it for a second' in a chilling video filmed before her death. Anna Campbell left her ...

Details have emerged of how women in towns and villages across northern Syria have defied the fierce oppression of President Bashar Al-Assad's Ba'ath regime to come together and create a women's ...

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