Pioneering Pakistan woman MMA fighter breaks barriers... and arms Growing up in the rugged northern reaches of Pakistan, Anita Karim honed her combat skills fighting with three older brothers who ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

The women’s strawweight title will be on the line Saturday in the UFC 312 co-main event when Zhang Weili (25-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC) puts the belt up for the third time in her second reign as champion when ...

Tough upbringing prepared her for a career in mixed martial arts (MMA), a discipline that blends Thai kickboxing, Japanese judo, and wrestling.

At least 20 people, most of them women, have been killed in a car bomb attack in northern Syria, the country's presidency ...

Scattered across Rojava - the Kurdish-led region in Syria that spearheaded the global fight against the Islamic State - there are prisons holding thousands upon thousands of captured ISIS fighters ...

The Islamist former insurgents now in charge need to build popular support and demonstrate rule of law. And they’re finding ...

IT WAS the image of British ISIS fighter Jihadi John wielding a knife and executing terrified hostages as they kneeled before him that changed Macer Gifford’s life forever. Watching the horror ...

Observers are warning that detention camps housing followers of the notorious Isis caliphate are close to collapse ...

Trump's plan to cut foreign aid will make it harder for Kurdish authorities to secure Syria's camps and prisons.

WASHINGTON (7News) — A fire that broke out in a Northwest townhouse early Saturday morning has killed one woman, according to DC Fire and EMS. Just before 6:00 a.m., fire officials revealed that ...

Businesses in several Kurdish cities in Iran went on strike Wednesday after Kurdish groups called for a protest against the death sentences of two female political prisoners. Six Kurdish groups ...