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 ...

The YPJ was formed as an armed wing of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which was itself formed as the Syrian wing of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK).

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.

There are 7,000 volunteer soldiers in the Women's Protection Unit, or YPJ, which fights alongside the Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Syria. In August, photojournalist Erin Trieb traveled there to ...

Hemrin Ali, an official in the Kurdish-led administration of northeastern Syria, told Reuters at Monday's rally: "Yes to supporting the YPJ.

Sanitising the Kurdish Women’s Movement One has to wonder how much of the book’s text centres on the ideology of the YPJ and the Kurdish Freedom Movement, and how much of it focuses instead on ...

A few hundred feet away, female Kurdish fighters with AK-47s over their shoulders guarded women and children, presumably militants’ wives and offspring. As these fighters, known as YPJ, chatted ...

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 PKK, whom the Turks continue to confuse with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), have their headquarters in the Qandil mountains in Iraq, not Syria.

The YPJ is an all-female brigade of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units YPG, which has around 50,000 Kurdish men and women fighting against IS in northern Syria.

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