Kurdish-led factions, supported by the US-led military coalition ... Women played a crucial role in the fight against IS - many volunteered in the all-female Women's Protection Units (YPJ). As we ...

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 ...

The new Kurdish assertiveness is evident not only in Iraq but also in Syria, where the YPJ, a Kurdish militia, has partnered with the U.S. military to fight the Islamic State (ISIS), Turkey ...

Syria’s interim government says it has reached a landmark agreement with Kurdish-led forces to integrate them into state institutions as it tries to unify the country’s diverse communities ...

Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the country’s southeast. But in recent years the group has called for more autonomy within ...

The agreement marked a major victory for Damascus in its quest to unify the country, as violent unrest continues to grip Syria’s coastal region. By Christina Goldbaum and Euan Ward Christina ...

U.S.A.I.D. Advertisement Supported by 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 ...

The YPG has a female counterpart, the YPJ. Turkey sees the YPG as indistinguishable from the PKK. The Syrian Kurdish groups established a system of governance shaped by Ocalan's ideas in Kurdish ...

Kurdish-led factions ... fight against IS - many volunteered in the all-female Women's Protection Units (YPJ). Image caption, Entrances into Kobane are marked with checkpoints As we drive around ...