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 ...

Zeynab Serekaniye was not a hardened soldier. The 26-year-old joined the all-female, Kurdish-led Women’s Protection Units, or YPJ, just nine months ago.

Several Sunni Arab tribes in northeast Syria, which encompasses 30 percent of the country and is currently under the control ...

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.

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 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 ...

MANBIJ, Syria — Radwan, a 30-year-old Arab man, came with four male witnesses and a grievance with an ex-wife to a place called the Women’s House here in Manbij, in northern Syria.

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 ...