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PKK Youth: Fighting for Kurdish Neighborhoods
VICE News gained access to the PKK youth wing (YDG-H) in Cizre, Turkey, as they battle to defend their neighborhoods from Turkish security forces.
London’s Kurds Marched to Convince the World to Save Their Homeland from the Islamic State
The demonstrators were furious that the international community has so far seemed unconcerned with the fate of their people.
ISIS Is Using Its Captured Iraqi Weapons Against the Kurds in Syria
The Kurds in Kobane are locked in a deadly fight with ISIS.
Rojava: Syria's Unknown War
In September of 2013, VICE News crossed the border into Syria's Kurdish region to document the YPG's counteroffensive against ISIS.
Syria's Christian Minority Are Fighting Back
It’s really a neighborhood watch, albeit with arrest powers and automatic weapons. Its members patrol towns and cities where people—mostly Kurds, but also Christians and Sunni Arabs—are locked in a brutal struggle against Islamist militants.
Photographs from Rojava: Syria's Unknown War
On the frontline of the battle between Kurdish fighters and jihadist rebels.
Rojava: Syria's Unknown War
As Syria's bloody civil war enters its third year, fighting has reached the country's Kurdish-dominated northeast.
Jihadists or Boredom? The Choices Aren't Great for Syria's Kurdish Refugees
Kawrgosk, Syria is home to thousands of trapped Kurds fleeing from the interminable civil war raging in the region. They struggle to get by in massive tent cities that have developed their own economy and culture separate from the war around them.
Meet the Kurdish Female Freedom Fighters of Syria
Women fighters are carrying on the revolution in Syria—and trying to keep Islamic militants at bay. “If I see a Jihadist," Avesta, a 27-year-old female sniper told me on a recent trip to the war-torn town of Ras al-Ayn, "I will shoot him. Otherwise, I...