Kurdish women fighters in Syria are not a trend or a moment. They are part of a decades-long women-led liberation movement. Groups like the Women’s Protection Units formed during the Syrian war with a political vision rooted in gender equality, collective leadership, and self-defense. In regions often referred to as Rojava, women organized not only to fight ISIS but to challenge systems that treated women as property or collateral damage. For these fighters, resistance isn’t only military. It’s

The elimination of Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) and People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters in Syria is “only a matter of time”, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Monday. Fidan’s comments came after he met Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, with whom he discussed the Islamic State (IS) threat in Syria in the aftermath of the ousting of Bashar al-Assad by Syrian rebels, including the presence of US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) whom the YPG are linked to. The PKK has bee