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 ...

Kurdish photographer Shayna Mahmoudzada has been nominated for an award after being selected by Britain’s NO.35gallery for ...

Some Kurdish women living in Northern Iraq were training to be peshmerga, as the self-ruled Kurdish region’s militia is known, and declared themselves ready to fight on the frontline against militants ...

The unsolved 2013 murder of three Kurdish women activists in Paris has been an open wound for their community, with lingering frustration over France's failure to bring those responsible to justice.

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 ...

Iencountered patriarchy and male dominance presiding over women and life, all in conjunction with the occupation of my homeland. We all knew that the state was the root cause,” says Peyman Viyan, the ...

For 41 days, thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets in anger over the death of a young Kurdish woman in police custody, even as authorities continue their violent crackdown against them. The ...

A wind of change is blowing through Iran. This wind picked up after the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini, the young Kurdish woman who was arrested by the Iranian morality police because a few strands of her ...

The front page of an Iranian newspaper featuring a Kurdish protester who died in police custody. (Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the ...

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 ...

The Kurdish community in France is reeling from a triple killing, just as they prepare to commemorate the 10 year anniversary of another deadly shooting. Few believe it was a lone-wolf attack. The ...