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 ...

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.

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

I strongly recommend it.” One could be forgiven for assuming based on Votel’s glowing review that no decent accounts have existed in book form on the role or history of the YPJ. In fact, there are ...

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 ...

Anna Campbell, from Lewes, East Sussex, died on March 15 in Afrin while with the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units, the YPJ, the BBC said. It is feared she was killed by Turkish air strikes.

According to SOHR, Turkey has carried out 49 drone strikes targeting Kurdish groups in Syria's north so far this year. Two airstrikes targeted Kurdish forces in Syria's north within three days. While ...