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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...