There was nothing to do, so when the situation changed I joined the YPJ,” said Gulbahar, 21, her hair pulled back in a plait. “Our life here is much better than sitting around in the house.” ...

In the years-long battle to retake northeastern Syria from ISIS, a small but powerful band of fighters led the way. The women of the YPJ, a Syrian-Kurdish force, fought alongside their male ...

YPJ Commander-in-Chief, Rohilat Afrin, talked to RIC about the state of the war in Manbij, the ceasefire that never was, the possibility of a Turkish invasion in Kobane, HTS-SDF relations and the ...

The YPJ gained a lot of battlefield experience in 2016, Ms Abdullah added, which is being transformed into an “academic consciousness.” The training women receive covers many fields, including ...

It was for these very reasons that, like Anna, I joined the YPG (the YPJ’s male equivalent). Anna and I were involved with the Movement for a Democratic Society (known as Tev-Dem), a coalition ...

GERMAN courts have been accused of trying to criminalise the Kurdish freedom movement and opposition to the authoritarian regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The country is home to a ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A graphic video has emerged on social media appearing to show the mutilated body of a female YPJ fighter, allegedly killed in fighting around the village of Qarnah near ...

The erratic treatment members of the YPG/YPJ receive at the hands of Europe’s counterterrorism networks doesn’t look set to change in the near future.

She joined the YPJ - the all-women version of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) - in 2015, according to her mother.

A British woman volunteer with the all-female Kurdish armed unit the YPJ has been killed in Syria, her father has told the BBC. It is understood Anna Campbell, 26, from Lewes in East Sussex, died ...

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 ...