An astonishing video showing a Kurdish sniper laughing after a bullet fired by an ISIS terrorist narrowly misses her head has emerged online. The YPJ (Women’s Protection Units) sharpshooter is ...

A video of a Kurdish YPJ (Women’s Protection Unit) sniper almost getting shot in the face while fighting in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa is going viral and not because it’s like two ...

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 ...

Meet the YPJ, the female counterpart to the Kurdish YPG, or “People’s Protection Units.” The YPG and the YPJ make up the majority of the fighting force of Rojava, the self-proclaimed Kurdish ...

After Tuesday’s announcement that ISIS had been defeated, the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) vowed to keep on fighting, many lamenting the 30 women they lost in the operation.

They receive no funding from the international community and the women are reliant on the Kurdish community for supplies and food. The YPJ have fought alongside their male counterparts ...

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But this may not tell the whole story. Earlier this year, I conducted one of the first surveys of the Kurdish Women’s Defense Units known as the YPJ (Yekîneyên Parastina Jin) after ...

At a YPJ office in Qamishli, Rojava’s largest city, I got a glimpse of the impact that the force has had on many young Kurdish women. Deniz Sipan, an attractive 21-year-old dressed in fatigues ...