In northeast Syria, Kurdish women are using music and performance to assert cultural identity, promote female empowerment and ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A Kurdish artist has opened a music classroom for women in Mahabad, a western Iranian city with a ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - More than 100 Kurdish women are set to gather on Saturday in Dusseldorf, Germany, for a ...

A Kurdish American highlighted the recent struggle for human rights for women in Iran during a speech to the Moorhead Human Rights Commission. Siham Amedy from Kurdish Iraq recently gave a speech to ...

KDP Deputy President Masrour Barzani stated the Kurdistan Women's Union has played a crucial role in defending women's rights ...

While dodging severe thunderstorms and tornadoes here in Oklahoma, Syrian Kurdish women’s rights activist Senam Mohamad spoke of the ISIS storms brewing in the Middle East at the University of Central ...

Verisheh Moradi, a member of the Community of Free Women of Eastern Kurdistan (KJAR) who previously fought against the ...

The Women’s Assembly of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party issued a written statement condemning the approval of a death sentence for Kurdish activist and labor rights ...

The Kurdish women fighters (Women’s Protection Unit, YPJ) of Rojava (the self-proclaimed Kurdish autonomy region in northern Syria) and the women’s guerrilla units (YJA-Star) of the Kurdistan Workers ...

SAMAQA, Iraq, Nov 3 (Reuters) - When Islamic State insurgents fired mortar bombs at Iranian Kurdish women fighters holding a desert position in northern Iraq, the women first hit back by singing ...

MALIKIYA, Syria (Reuters) - Like her five sisters before her, Ahin left school to help her mother at home. Now she's training to fight. At a remote Kurdish militia base on the grassy rolling hills ...