Blink - Online identity & payment technologiesJazera, like thousands of other women in Rojava, the Kurdish region of Syria, is a member of the women’s wing of the People’s Protection Unit (YPG ...

The YPG and the YPJ make up the majority of the fighting force of Rojava, the self-proclaimed Kurdish state in Northern Syria. The YPJ is unique as far as fighting groups go in that it is the sole ...

The YPJ, also known as the Women's Protection Unit, has come under increased attack from Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria and is currently involved in the fight for the key border town of ...

In Syria, the armed wing of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party is called the YPG (People's Protection Units). Its female brigade is called the YPJ (Women's Protection Units).

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) rescued a second Yazidi woman from the clutches of the Islamic State (ISIS) in the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava ...

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.

Raqqa was the capital of ISIS. They bought and sold Kurdish women here. And we want to tell them that the Kurdish women can protect themselves. And YPJ will take revenge, for all Kurdish women.

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.

Few were given weapons. But the YPJ is now celebrated for its battlefield prowess; some women even command men. In January a female fighter blew herself up to destroy a Turkish tank.

FILE: Young Syrian-Kurdish women take part in a training session organized by the Kurdish Women’s Defense Units (YPJ) on August 28, 2013. BENJAMIN HILLER/AFP/Getty Images ...

Anna Campbell, 26, from Lewes in East Sussex, was volunteering with the US-backed Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) in the northern Syrian city of Afrin when a Turkish missile struck her ...