Courtesy image U.S. efforts to aid the YPJ were complicated by its ties to the Kurdish Workers’ Party or “PKK,” which has been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. government.

The Kurdish bomber, identified as Zuluh Hemo, 20, had fought under the nom de guerre Avesta Habur, according to a statement from her military organization, the Women’s Protection Units, or YPJ ...

The PKK, whom the Turks continue to confuse with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), have their headquarters in the Qandil mountains in Iraq, not Syria.

A picture of a U.S. soldier withdrawing from Syria sporting a patch of a controversial Kurdish militia group known as the YPJ has been making the rounds across social media. The YPJ is the women ...

There are 7,000 volunteer soldiers in the Women's Protection Unit, or YPJ, which fights alongside the Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Syria. In August, photojournalist Erin Trieb traveled there to ...

An all-female Kurdish force in northeast Syria rescued a 21-year-old Yazidi woman who had been held captive by the Islamic State (ISIS) for 11 years.

Human Rights Watch said the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, and its women's branch, YPJ, are not the only offenders among Syria's armed groups.

Sanitising the Kurdish Women’s Movement One has to wonder how much of the book’s text centres on the ideology of the YPJ and the Kurdish Freedom Movement, and how much of it focuses instead on ...

“As a Kurdish woman in the YPJ, it gives me great pleasure to take part in this campaign to defeat those mercenaries,” she said, before mocking the fear that her unit inspires.

A US soldier wearing a Syrian Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) badge as US troops pull out of their largest base in northern Syria, in the town of Tal Tamr, October 20, 2019 Delil Souleiman ...

The YPJ is an all-female brigade of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units YPG, which has around 50,000 Kurdish men and women fighting against IS in northern Syria.