ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The chief of an all-woman force within the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has rejected ...

Turkey sees the YPJ and associated YPG as an extension of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a link that the Kurds deny. Ahmet Berat Conkar - an MP from Turkey's ruling AK Party and head ...

Barin Kobani was part of the YPG's all-female unit, the YPJ. She was killed during fighting earlier this week in the northern part of the region, reports say. Turkey views the YPG as a terrorist ...

Everyone, old and young, was on their feet and, gradually, the noise fell away to chants: “Long live the resistance of the YPG! Long live the resistance of the YPJ!” The men, who just returned ...

Thousands of women rallied in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on Monday to demand the new Islamist rulers in ...

The armed wing of the Kurdish Democratic Party is called the YPG (People's Protection Unit) and its female brigade is called YPJ (Women's Protection Unit) - both functioning under the Syrian ...

The SDF is primarily composed of Kurdish fighters from the YPG (People's Protection Units) and YPJ (the female equivalent of the YPG) and is backed and trained by the United States. Ideologically ...

Many of the protesters waved the green flag of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ), an affiliate of the Kurdish People's Protection Units militia (YPG) that Turkey deems a national security threat ...