At YPG/YPJ checkpoints and bases across the region, walls are always adorned with posters of Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned PKK leader, whose nickname, “Apo,” is scrawled in graffiti on ...

Türkİye, Middle East Turkish intelligence 'neutralizes' so-called leader of PKK's offshoot YPG/YPJ in northern Syria After detecting location of Uman Dervis in Manbij region, National ...

Arthur explains that the American "support" to the YPG-YPJ should be considered as an objective alliance. The YPG-YPJ are perfectly aware that the US consider them as a tool to fight Daesh.

Türkiye's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) "neutralized" a senior operative of the PKK/YPG-YPJ terrorist organization in northern Syria, security sources said on Friday. Vahide Atalay ...

“Hundreds of foreign, non-Kurdish volunteers have joined the YPG/YPJ in their fight, and a number of them have paid with their lives, while others have been unjustly prosecuted for their actions ...

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 ...

It’s common for U.S. special operators to don patches of partner forces. But in 2016, American military commanders banned the wear of YPG and YPJ patches after Turkey became outraged following ...

Photographer Erin Trieb spent a week documenting members of the YPJ at numerous military posts in Northeastern Syria and along the Syrian-Kurdish border for Marie Claire magazine.

HRW noted that, on June 13, the YPG demobilized 27 boys and a week later the YPJ demobilized 16 girls. Seven YPG officers had been punished for accepting child soldiers and three were expelled ...

She joined the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), the all-female arm of the YPG, and fought IS in the border town of Kobane in 2015 and in the jihadists’ self-styled capital Raqa last year.

International volunteers: ideal and reality The international volunteers join the YPG-YPJ forces with very different motivations, a few are even former soldiers who wish to pimp up their CV. Arthur ...

The Kurdish YPG (or People’s Defense Units) has released a summary of its operations for 2015. The YPG claims to have killed nearly 6,000 "enemy" fighters, most of whom likely belonged to the Islamic ...