The group YPJ — or the Women’s Protection Unit — was featured in the clip showing how the Kurdish women have chosen to fight for their cities and families against the terrible atrocities of ...

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 ...

Several Sunni Arab tribes in northeast Syria, which encompasses 30 percent of the country and is currently under the control ...

Turkish airstrikes in Syria have escalated over the last month as the world concentrates on a different crisis.

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.

Ahmadi found herself on the battle front, armed and wearing the uniforms of the Kurdish fighters of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) in Syria.

The Kurdish militias have separate Women’s Protection Units, or YPJ, which have been important partners with men’s units on the battlefield.

The YPG and YPJ, who make up the major part of the SDF, are the Kurds who fought valiantly to defeat ISIS territorially and to save the Yazidis from being genocidally killed on Sinjar Mountain. After ...

Flatlands, vast expanding flatlands jutting into a distant sun-drenched horizon. Every few hundred yards, punctuated by the ...