Mohammadi appeared healthy and as usual in her public appearances defiantly not wearing the headscarf that is obligatory for all women under the Islamic republic's dress code. She was flanked by ...

The outline of a stiff kaftan, baggy pants and turban: the traditional dress of Kurdish freedom fighters ... cloaked in a black abaya and headscarf, that bundle tied to her back.

In the first years of AKP's rule, hopes for democratisation framed around the “headscarf ban” gave way to practices ... to be labelled as a reflection of the pro-coup approach. The Kurdish movement ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Around 400 delegates have arrived in Qamishli, northeast Syria (Rojava) to attend the first Kurdish national conference aimed at bolstering Kurdish unity in Syria.

Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Twenty Islamic State (ISIS) militants were arrested during a six-day operation by Kurdish forces at the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria ...

Nouri Sheikho, a senior member of the local council in Aleppo's majority Kurdish neighbourhoods of Ashrafiya and Sheikh Maksoud, told AFP that "more than 500 fighters" left the northern city.

QAMISHLI: Syria’s Kurdish parties on Saturday adopted a joint political vision calling for a “decentralised democratic” state in Syria with guarantees for Kurdish rights. Their statement ...

ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — Scores of U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters left two neighborhoods in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo Friday as part of a deal with the central government in Damascus ...

At 2.30pm on 19 December 2024, Ahmed Mohamed, editor-in-chief of the Syrian-Kurdish Hawar News Agency (ANHA), received a dispatch from two of his colleagues. An hour later, they were dead. “They had ...

The pro-Kurdish DEM Party, parliament's third largest, is now demanding that democratisation steps follow. The PKK heeded the call, declaring an immediate ceasefire. The group added it wanted ...

U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters stands on their vehicles, as they withdraw from two neighbourhoods in Syria's northern city of Aleppo as part of a deal with the Syrian central government, in Aleppo ...