So I joined the YPG. I wanted to join the volunteers from America, Britain, and the rest of the free world in fighting the Islamic State.

YPG’s vast size also includes nearly 2,000 square miles of restricted airspace, with clear, stable air and an extremely dry climate where inclement weather is a rarity.

YPG-Training camp for international volunteers, canton of Cizîrê Turkish bombings April 25, 2017 Because of news from Turkish bombings on Sinjar and on an YPG base of Rojava (not ours) I will have to ...

The YPG said the other slain U.S. national was Nicholas Warden, 29, who had adopted the Kurdish name Rodî Deysie. According to the statement posted by the YPG, he was killed on July 5, also ...

The Pentagon has allocated $130 million for 2026 under the "Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund (CTEF)" for groups in Syria including the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a group led by the PKK/YPG ...

One of America's most senior generals said on Friday he instructed the Kurdish YPG militia to change its "brand" a day or so before it unveiled an alliance with Syrian Arabs in 2015 under the name ...